Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 45
They went on, and the maid watered the road with her tears.
Who acts: Becfola, maid · What happens: go on, water · To what, where: road
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 (Becfola, maid), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watered | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 watered | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maid | det |
| 7 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watered | nsubj |
| 8 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watered | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 tears | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 watered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Becfola | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | water | past | the maid | the road | with Tara's tears | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent road=Destination with tear=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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