Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 29
These the king permitted, with a tight lip, perhaps, but all else that came under his hand felt his control.
Who acts: king, all, hand · What happens: permit, come, feel · To what, where: control
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: who acts (king, all, hand), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 king | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 permitted | nsubj |
| 4 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lip | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 lip | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lip | det |
| 8 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lip | amod |
| 9 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 permitted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 perhaps | punct |
| 11 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 permitted | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 came | nsubj |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 all | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 all | obj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 permitted | parataxis |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 felt | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 control | nmod:poss |
| 23 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 felt | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 permitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | participle | this king | with a tight lip; perhaps property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 2 | come | past | all | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | king's hand | king's control | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=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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