Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 17

The curls on Crimthann’s head had been indeed as a benediction to the queen’s eye, so that she had eaten the better and slept the sounder for seeing him.

Who acts: curls, Crimthann · What happens: be, eat, sleep, see · To what, where: sounder, man

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curls, Crimthann), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 curls	det
2	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 benediction	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 head	case
4	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Crimthann	case
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 curls	nmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 benediction	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 benediction	cop
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 benediction	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 benediction	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 benediction	det
12	benediction	benediction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 eye	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 queen	det
15	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eye	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 queen	case
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 benediction	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eaten	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 eaten	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eaten	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 eaten	aux
23	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 benediction	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 better	det
25	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 eaten	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 slept	cc
27	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 eaten	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sounder	det
29	sounder	sounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 slept	obj
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 seeing	mark
31	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 slept	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seeing	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 benediction	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the curls on Crimthann's head		as a benediction; to the queen's eye; indeed property	tree rules
2	eat	past · perfect	Crimthann			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	past	Crimthann not said here	the sounder		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sounder=Theme
4	see	gerund	Crimthann not said here	man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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