Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 77
And the hard-fighting pillar of battle turned to where his arms hung on the wall behind him.
What happens: fight, turn, hang · To what, where: battle, arms, wall
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 pillar | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pillar | det |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fighting | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 hard | punct |
| 5 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 pillar | amod |
| 6 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 battle | case |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pillar | nmod |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 battle | acl |
| 10 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 14 hung | mark |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 hung | advmod |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 turned | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 wall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wall | det |
| 17 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hung | obl |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hung | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pillar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | gerund | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | turn | participle | battle not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hang | participle · passive | Goll's arms | the wall | behind Goll | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on wall=Destination |
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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