Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 29
The household retired to wretched beds; but for the master of the house there was no sleep.
What happens: retire, be · To what, where: household, sleep
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 household | det |
| 2 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 household | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 beds | case |
| 5 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beds | amod |
| 6 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 retired | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sleep | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 master | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 master | det |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 master | nmod |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sleep | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 sleep | det |
| 18 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 household | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 household | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | participle | the household and no sleep not said here | to wretched beds | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | no sleep | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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