Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 3
A lank-jawed, thin-browed brother, with uneasy, intertwining fingers, and a deep-set, venomous eye, was the spokesman of those four.
Who acts: jawed thin browed brother · What happens: jaw, brow, intertwine, be · To what, where: fingers, spokesman
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jawed thin browed brother), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 brother | det |
| 2 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jawed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 lank | punct |
| 4 | jawed | jaw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 brother | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brother | punct |
| 6 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brother | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 thin | punct |
| 8 | browed | brow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spokesman | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 uneasy | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 uneasy | case |
| 12 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brother | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 intertwining | punct |
| 14 | intertwining | intertwine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 uneasy | advcl |
| 15 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 intertwining | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 set | det |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 set | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 deep | punct |
| 21 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eye | punct |
| 23 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eye | amod |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brother | punct |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 spokesman | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 spokesman | det |
| 28 | spokesman | spokesman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 four | case |
| 30 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 four | det |
| 31 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 spokesman | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 spokesman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jaw | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | brow | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | intertwine | gerund | a jawed thin browed brother and a deep set and venomous eye not said here | fingers | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a jawed thin browed brother and a deep set and venomous eye | the spokesman | of that four | tree rules |
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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