Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 9

The Carl put his coat on the ground, opened it carefully, and revealed a store of blackberries, squashed, crushed, mangled, democratic, ill-looking.

Who acts: Carl · What happens: put, open, reveal, squash, crush, mangle · To what, where: coat, ground, store

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 (Carl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Carl	det
2	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 coat	nmod:poss
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 opened	punct
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 opened	obj
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	10 opened	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 revealed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 revealed	cc
15	revealed	reveal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 store	det
17	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 revealed	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 blackberries	case
19	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 store	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 squashed	punct
21	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 revealed	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crushed	punct
23	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 squashed	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mangled	punct
25	mangled	mangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 revealed	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 democratic	punct
27	democratic	democratic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mangled	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looking	punct
29	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 looking	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 ill	punct
31	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 democratic	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	the Carl	Carl's coat	the ground		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme on ground=Destination
2	open	past		Coat		carefully property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	reveal	past		a store of blackberries			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Topic
4	squash	participle					vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
5	crush	participle					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	mangle	participle					vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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