Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 20
Eight silken smocks embroidered with gold, eight precious brooches of beaten gold, three diadems of pure gold.”
What happens: embroider, beat · To what, where: Eight silken smocks
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: 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 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 smocks | nummod |
| 2 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 smocks | amod |
| 3 | smocks | smock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 smocks | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 embroidered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brooches | punct |
| 8 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 brooches | nummod |
| 9 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brooches | amod |
| 10 | brooches | brooch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smocks | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 12 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 gold | amod |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brooches | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 diadems | punct |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 diadems | nummod |
| 16 | diadems | diadem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smocks | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 18 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gold | amod |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 diadems | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 diadems | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 diadems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider | participle | Eight silken smocks and eight precious brooches of beaten gold and three diadems of pure gold not said here | with gold | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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