Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 7
Yet ere she descended she looked again on the world of jet and silver that dozed about her, and she spied a red glimmer among distant trees.
Who acts: lady, jet · What happens: descend, look, doze, spy · To what, where: red glimmer
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 (lady, jet), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 descended | cc |
| 2 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 4 descended | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 descended | nsubj |
| 4 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 descended | ccomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 jet | case |
| 12 | jet | jet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 world | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 silver | cc |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jet | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 dozed | nsubj |
| 16 | dozed | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 jet | acl:relcl |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dozed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spied | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spied | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spied | nsubj |
| 22 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 descended | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 glimmer | det |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 glimmer | amod |
| 25 | glimmer | glimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spied | obj |
| 26 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 trees | case |
| 27 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 trees | amod |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spied | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | past | lady | ere property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | lady | again | on the world of jet and silver | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on world=Theme | |||
| 3 | doze | past | jet and silver | about lady | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | spy | past | lady | a red glimmer | among distant trees | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimmer=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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