Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 6
Their hair was black as ink and tough as wire: it stuck up and poked out and hung down about their heads in bushes and spikes and tangles.
Who acts: hair · What happens: be, stick up, poke out, hang down · To what, where: bushes
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 (hair), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 black | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 black | cop |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 ink | case |
| 6 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 black | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tough | cc |
| 8 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 black | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 wire | case |
| 10 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tough | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 stuck | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stuck | nsubj |
| 13 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 black | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 stuck | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 poked | cc |
| 16 | poked | poke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stuck | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 poked | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hung | cc |
| 19 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 poked | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 hung | compound:prt |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 heads | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heads | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hung | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 bushes | case |
| 25 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hung | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spikes | cc |
| 27 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bushes | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tangles | cc |
| 29 | tangles | tangle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bushes | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 black | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | daughters's hair | as ink; black property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | daughters's hair not said here | as wire | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stick up | past | hair | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | poke out | participle | hair not said here | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hang down | participle | hair not said here | bushes and spikes and tangles | about daughters's heads | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about head=Location |
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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