Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 29
And then they joined hands and danced joyfully around their father, and they sang a song, the first line of which is:
Who acts: mouths, first line · What happens: join, dance, sing, be · To what, where: hands, song
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 (mouths, first line), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 joined | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 joined | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 joined | nsubj |
| 4 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 joined | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 danced | cc |
| 7 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joined | conj |
| 8 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 7 danced | advmod |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 danced | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sang | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sang | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sang | nsubj |
| 15 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joined | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 song | det |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sang | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 line | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 line | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 line | amod |
| 21 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 song | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 is | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 line | acl:relcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | mouths = mouth | hands | then | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | dance | past | mouths = mouth not said here | around mouths's father; joyfully property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around father=Location | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | mouths = mouth | a song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | present | the first line | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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