Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 48
And, with help, she laid beside him the load of three men of doubly refined gold.
Who acts: fort · What happens: lay, refine · To what, where: load
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 (fort), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 laid | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 help | case |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laid | nsubj |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laid | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 load | det |
| 11 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 men | nummod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 load | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 16 | doubly | doubly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 refined | advmod |
| 17 | refined | refine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gold | amod |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 men | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | fort | the load of three men of refined gold | with help; beside Denmark | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent load=Theme beside he=Destination | |||
| 2 | refine | participle | doubly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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