Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 6
“It had your armour and your face, and the dogs, Bran and Sceo’lan, were with it.”
Who acts: master, dogs · What happens: have, be · To what, where: armour
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, dogs), 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 | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 armour | nmod:poss |
| 5 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 face | cc |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 armour | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 it | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 it | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dogs | det |
| 12 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 it | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Bran | punct |
| 14 | Bran | Bran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 dogs | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Sceo’lan | cc |
| 16 | Sceo’lan | Sceo'lan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bran | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dogs | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 it | cop |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | master | your armour and your face | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the dogs | with face | 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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