Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 36
A crier stood up then, holding in one hand a length of coarse iron links and in the other a chain of delicate, antique silver.
Who acts: crier · What happens: stand up, hold · To what, where: length, one hand
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crier), 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 | 2 crier | det |
| 2 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stood | compound:prt |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 holding | punct |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hand | nummod |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 length | det |
| 12 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 links | case |
| 14 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 links | amod |
| 15 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 links | compound |
| 16 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 length | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 chain | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 chain | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chain | amod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chain | det |
| 22 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 length | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 silver | case |
| 24 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 silver | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 delicate | punct |
| 26 | antique | antique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 silver | amod |
| 27 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chain | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | a crier | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | a crier not said here | a length of coarse iron links and a other chain of delicate antique silver | one hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent length=Theme in hand=Location |
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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