Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 47
It was that woman,” he roared, and he extended a lean, inflexible, unending first finger at the queen.
Who acts: brow, king · What happens: be, roar, extend, unend · To what, where: woman, lean, finger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brow, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 woman | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woman | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 woman | mark |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roared | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 woman | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 woman | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 roared | nsubj |
| 8 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 extended | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 extended | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 extended | nsubj |
| 12 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 roared | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lean | det |
| 14 | lean | lean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 extended | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 inflexible | punct |
| 16 | inflexible | inflexible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lean | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 unending | punct |
| 18 | unending | unend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 extended | advcl |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 finger | advmod |
| 20 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unending | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 queen | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 queen | det |
| 23 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unending | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | brow | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roar in a quote | past | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | extend in a quote | past | king | a lean | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lean=Theme | ||||
| 4 | unend in a quote | gerund | king not said here | finger | at the queen | 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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