Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 16

He had long, beautiful hair, and he was naked.

Who acts: boy · What happens: have, be · To what, where: long beautiful hair

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 naked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 naked	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 naked	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 naked	cop
11	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy	long beautiful hair					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	is	past	boy					naked property	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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