Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 18

On his shoulders under the shield he carried a splendid scarlet mantle; over his breast was a great brooch of burnt gold, and in his fist he gripped a pair of thick-shafted, unburnished spears.

Who acts: gentleman, breast · What happens: carry, be, grip, shaft · To what, where: splendid scarlet mantle, shoulders, great brooch, pair, fist

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 (gentleman, breast), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 shoulders	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shoulders	nmod:poss
3	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carried	obl
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 shield	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shield	det
6	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carried	nsubj
8	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mantle	det
10	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mantle	amod
11	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mantle	compound
12	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 carried	punct
14	over	over	ADP	_	20 brooch	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 breast	nmod:poss
16	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brooch	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 brooch	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 brooch	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 brooch	amod
20	brooch	brooch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 gold	case
22	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 gold	amod
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brooch	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gripped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gripped	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 fist	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fist	nmod:poss
28	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gripped	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gripped	nsubj
30	gripped	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 carried	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pair	det
32	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gripped	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	39 spears	case
34	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 spears	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 thick	punct
36	shafted	shaft	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 thick	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thick	punct
38	unburnished	unburnished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 spears	amod
39	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pair	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	gentleman	a splendid scarlet mantle	gentleman's shoulders	under the shield	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme
2	is	past	gentleman's breast		a great brooch	of burnt gold	tree rules
3	grip	past	gentleman	a pair of thick unburnished spears	gentleman's fist		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Experiencer
4	shaft	participle	gentleman not said here				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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