Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 30
But before answering the Carl’s shape changed into one of splendour and delight.
What happens: answer, change · To what, where: shape
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 changed | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 answering | mark |
| 3 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 changed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Carl | det |
| 5 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shape | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Carl | case |
| 7 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answering | obj |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 changed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 splendour | case |
| 12 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 delight | cc |
| 14 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 splendour | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | gerund | the Carl's shape | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | change | past | into one of splendour and delight result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into one=Result |
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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