Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 76
No second tear crept on the lady’s lashes, and, with her hand in the king’s hand, they paced together towards the palace, while behind them, in melancholy mood, Crimthann mac Ae led the horses and the chariot.
Who acts: second tear, lashes, melancholy mood · What happens: creep, pace, lead · To what, where: lashes, palace, horses
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 (second tear, lashes, melancholy mood), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 tear | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 tear | amod |
| 3 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 lashes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lashes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 lady | case |
| 9 | lashes | lash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crept | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hand | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hand | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hand | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hand | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 paced | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 paced | nsubj |
| 23 | paced | pace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crept | conj |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 paced | advmod |
| 25 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 paced | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 them | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 them | mark |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 paced | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 mood | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 mood | case |
| 34 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mood | compound |
| 35 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 led | nsubj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 mac | punct |
| 37 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 mac | compound |
| 38 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 mood | appos |
| 39 | Ae | Ae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 mac | flat |
| 40 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 paced | parataxis |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 horses | det |
| 42 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 led | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 chariot | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 chariot | det |
| 45 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 horses | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | no second tear | the lady's lashes | with lady's hand in the king's hand | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lash=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | pace | past | lashes = lash | the palace | together property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards palace=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead | past | melancholy mood | the horses and the chariot | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
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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