Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 6
Then she sat quietly in a seat gazing on the recumbent monarch, and prepared to consider how she should advance to him when he awakened, and with what information she might stay his inquiries or reproaches.
Who acts: Becfola, seat, king · What happens: sit, gaze, consider, advance, awaken, stay · To what, where: seat, king, inquiries
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becfola, seat, king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 seat | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 seat | det |
| 7 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 seat | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 monarch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 monarch | det |
| 11 | recumbent | recumbent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 monarch | amod |
| 12 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gazing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prepared | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 prepared | cc |
| 15 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sat | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 consider | mark |
| 17 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 prepared | xcomp |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 advance | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 advance | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 advance | aux |
| 21 | advance | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 consider | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 advance | obl |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 awakened | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 awakened | nsubj |
| 26 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 advance | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stay | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 stay | cc |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 information | case |
| 30 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 31 information | det |
| 31 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stay | obl |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 stay | nsubj |
| 33 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 stay | aux |
| 34 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sat | conj |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 inquiries | nmod:poss |
| 36 | inquiries | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 stay | obj |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 reproaches | cc |
| 38 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 inquiries | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Becfola | a seat | then | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location | ||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | a seat not said here | on the recumbent monarch | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on monarch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | consider | to-infinitive | Becfola not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | advance | should | Becfola | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | awaken | past | king | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | stay | might | Becfola | king's inquiries or reproaches | with what information | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme inquiry=Location | |||
| 7 | inquire | king | nom inquiry «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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