Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 47
She then descended from the chariot and made her reverence.
Who acts: monarch · What happens: descend, make, reverence · To what, where: chariot, reverence
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: who acts (monarch), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 descended | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 descended | advmod |
| 3 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 chariot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chariot | det |
| 6 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 descended | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 descended | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 reverence | nmod:poss |
| 10 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | past | monarch | the chariot | then | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from chariot=Location | |||
| 2 | make | past | monarch not said here | monarch's reverence | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reverence=Product | ||||
| 3 | reverence | monarch | nom reverence «feeling 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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