Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 27
“She is not stretched to the full, nor half stretched.
What happens: not stretch, stretch · To what, where: mind
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretched | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stretched | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stretched | advmod |
| 5 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 full | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 full | det |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stretched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stretched | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 stretched | cc |
| 11 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 stretched | advmod |
| 12 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stretched | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stretch in a quote | present · passive | mind | to the full result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to full=Result | ||||
| 2 | stretch in a quote | participle | half property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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