Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 33
Dermod pondered, shaking his head as to an argument on his left side, and then nodding it again as to an argument on his right.
Who acts: Dermod · What happens: ponder, shake, nod · To what, where: head
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 (Dermod), 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 | Dermod | Dermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pondered | nsubj |
| 2 | pondered | ponder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shaking | punct |
| 4 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pondered | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaking | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 10 argument | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 argument | det |
| 10 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaking | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 side | nmod:poss |
| 13 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 argument | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nodding | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nodding | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 nodding | advmod |
| 18 | nodding | nod | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pondered | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 nodding | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 nodding | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 24 argument | case |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 argument | det |
| 24 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nodding | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 right | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 right | nmod:poss |
| 27 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 argument | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ponder | past | Dermod | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | Dermod not said here | Dermod's head | as a argument on Dermod's left side | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 3 | nod | gerund | Dermod not said here | head | then; again | as a argument on Dermod's right | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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