Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 66
Her slender foot set his heart beating; and whatever way her head moved there came a new shape of beauty to her face.
Who acts: slender foot, whatever, head, way, foot · What happens: set, way, move, come, beat · To what, where: heart beating, way, new shape
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: who acts (slender foot, whatever, head, way), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 foot | nmod:poss |
| 2 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 foot | amod |
| 3 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beating | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beating | compound |
| 7 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 way | cc |
| 10 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 way | nsubj |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | nsubj |
| 14 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | acl:relcl |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 moved | advmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shape | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shape | amod |
| 19 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 beauty | case |
| 21 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shape | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 face | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 face | nmod:poss |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | lark's slender foot | foot's heart beating | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient beating=Result | ||||
| 2 | way | whatever | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | move | past | lark's head | way not said here | there | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 4 | come | past | way | a new shape of beauty | to lark's face | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shape=Theme | |||
| 5 | beat | foot | nom beating «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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