Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 15
Into the centre of the mess of blackberries he discharged a barrel of meal, and be mixed the two up and through, and round and down, until the pile of white-black, red-brown slibber-slobber reached up to his shoulders.
Who acts: Meal · What happens: discharge, mix up, reach up, mess · To what, where: barrel, centre, two, black brown slibber slobber, blackberries
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meal), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 3 centre | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 centre | det |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 discharged | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mess | det |
| 6 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 centre | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 blackberries | case |
| 8 | blackberries | blackberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mess | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 discharged | nsubj |
| 10 | discharged | discharge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 barrel | det |
| 12 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 discharged | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 meal | case |
| 14 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 barrel | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mixed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mixed | cc |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 mixed | aux:pass |
| 18 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 discharged | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 two | det |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 mixed | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 mixed | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 through | cc |
| 23 | through | through | ADV | _ | 18 mixed | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 round | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 round | cc |
| 26 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 discharged | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 down | cc |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 26 round | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pile | punct |
| 30 | until | until | ADP | _ | 32 pile | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 pile | det |
| 32 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 discharged | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 slobber | case |
| 34 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 black | amod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 white | punct |
| 36 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 slobber | amod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 black | punct |
| 38 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 brown | amod |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 red | punct |
| 40 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 slobber | amod |
| 41 | slibber | slibber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 slobber | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 slibber | punct |
| 43 | slobber | slobber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pile | nmod |
| 44 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 slobber | acl |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 reached | compound:prt |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 shoulders | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 48 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 reached | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 discharged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discharge | past | Meal | a barrel of meal | the centre of the mess of blackberries | round property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme | ||
| 2 | mix up | infinitive · passive | Meal not said here | the two | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: two=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reach up | participle | black brown slibber slobber not said here | to Meal's shoulders | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mess | blackberries | nom mess «state transitive»: of=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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