Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 41
The cleric wrapped himself into himself, and became lean and menacing.
Who acts: cleric · What happens: wrap, become, menace · To what, where: word
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 (cleric), 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 cleric | det |
| 2 | cleric | cleric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | nsubj |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 wrapped | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 became | cc |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | parataxis |
| 10 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 became | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 menacing | cc |
| 12 | menacing | menace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 lean | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past | the cleric | word | into word | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into himself=Destination | |||
| 2 | become | past | lean property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | menace | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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