Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 20

“It’s a good word,” quoth Cuillen, and she swung her jaw loose and made it waggle up and down, for that was the way she smiled.

Who acts: chance, good word, word, that, jaw · What happens: be, quoth, swing, make, waggle up, smile · To what, where: good word, Cuillen, jaw, chance, way

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance, good word, word, that), 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	_	6 word	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 word	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 word	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quoth	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 word	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 word	punct
9	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Cuillen	Cuillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 quoth	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swung	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 swung	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 swung	nsubj
14	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 quoth	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 jaw	nmod:poss
16	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swung	obj
17	loose	loose	ADV	_	14 swung	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 swung	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	obj
21	waggle	waggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	xcomp
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 waggle	compound:prt
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 down	cc
24	down	down	ADV	_	22 up	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 way	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	30 way	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 way	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 way	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 waggle	parataxis
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 smiled	nsubj
32	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 way	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 quoth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	chance	a good word		tree rules
2	quoth	present	a good word	Cuillen		tree rules
3	swing	past	word	word's jaw	loose property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jaw=Theme
4	make	past	word not said here	chance		tree rules
5	waggle up	infinitive	chance not said here			vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	that		for the way	tree rules
7	smile	past	jaw	the way not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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