Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 9

“A greatly bearded, greatly shouldered man he was.

What happens: shoulder · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 bearded	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bearded	det
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	4 bearded	advmod
4	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shouldered	punct
6	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	7 shouldered	advmod
7	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bearded	conj
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shouldered	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bearded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoulder in a quote	past		man				greatly property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme

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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