Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 26
“That is the truth,” said Iaran in a voice of lamentation, and her face took on a gnarl and a writhe and a solidity of ugly woe that beat the other two and made even her father marvel.
Who acts: That, Iaran, face, ugly woe · What happens: be, say, take, beat, make, marvel · To what, where: truth, voice, gnarl, other two, father marvel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, Iaran, face, ugly woe), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 truth | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 truth | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 truth | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 truth | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Iaran | Iaran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lamentation | case |
| 14 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 voice | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 gnarl | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 gnarl | det |
| 22 | gnarl | gnarl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 writhe | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 writhe | det |
| 25 | writhe | writhe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gnarl | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 solidity | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 solidity | det |
| 28 | solidity | solidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gnarl | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 woe | case |
| 30 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 woe | amod |
| 31 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 solidity | nmod |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 beat | nsubj |
| 33 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 woe | acl:relcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 two | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 two | amod |
| 36 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 beat | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 made | cc |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 two | conj |
| 39 | even | even | ADV | _ | 42 marvel | advmod |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 marvel | nmod:poss |
| 41 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 marvel | compound |
| 42 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 made | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Iaran | a voice of lamentation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | past | face's face | a gnarl and a writhe and a solidity of ugly woe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on gnarl=Destination | ||||
| 4 | beat | present | ugly woe | the other two | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location two=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | past | ugly woe not said here | face's father marvel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | marvel | face | nom marvel «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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