Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 17
He was equipped in a wonderful solidity of armour, with a hard, carven helmet on his head, a splendid red-bossed shield swinging on his shoulder, a wide-grooved, straight sword clashing along his thigh.
Who acts: splendid bossed shield, grooved straight sword · What happens: equip, boss, swing, groove, clash · To what, where: gentleman, wonderful solidity, shoulder, thigh
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 (splendid bossed shield, grooved straight sword), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 equipped | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 equipped | aux:pass |
| 3 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 solidity | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 solidity | det |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 solidity | amod |
| 7 | solidity | solidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 equipped | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 armour | case |
| 9 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 solidity | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 helmet | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 helmet | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 helmet | det |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 helmet | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hard | punct |
| 15 | carven | carven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 helmet | amod |
| 16 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 equipped | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 helmet | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shield | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 shield | det |
| 22 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shield | amod |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bossed | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 red | punct |
| 25 | bossed | boss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 shield | amod |
| 26 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 helmet | conj |
| 27 | swinging | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 shield | acl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 shoulder | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 30 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 swinging | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sword | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 sword | det |
| 33 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 grooved | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 wide | punct |
| 35 | grooved | groove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 sword | amod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sword | punct |
| 37 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 sword | amod |
| 38 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 helmet | conj |
| 39 | clashing | clash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 sword | acl |
| 40 | along | along | ADP | _ | 42 thigh | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 thigh | nmod:poss |
| 42 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 clashing | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 equipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | equip | past · passive | gentleman | a wonderful solidity of armour | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | boss | participle | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | swing | gerund | a splendid bossed shield not said here | gentleman's shoulder | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | groove | participle | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | clash | gerund | a grooved straight sword not said here | gentleman's thigh | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along thigh=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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