Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 8

Their mouths were black and twisted, and in each of these mouths there was a hedge of curved yellow fangs.

Who acts: mouths, hedge · What happens: be, curve · To what, where: each

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, hedge), 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 mouths	nmod:poss
2	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 black	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 black	cop
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 twisted	cc
6	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 black	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 was	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 each	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 was	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mouths	case
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 mouths	det
13	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 each	nmod
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 black	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hedge	det
17	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 fangs	case
19	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 fangs	amod
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fangs	amod
21	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hedge	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 black	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	daughters's mouths		black property	tree rules
2	be		daughters's mouths not said here			tree rules
3	be	past	a hedge of curved yellow fangs	each; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in each=Location
4	curve	participle				vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material

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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