Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 23
For there was a great hole like a doorway in the side of the mound, and in that doorway the daughters of Conaran sat spinning.
Who acts: great hole, daughters · What happens: be, sit, spin · To what, where: doorway
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great hole, daughters), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sat | parataxis |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hole | amod |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 doorway | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 doorway | det |
| 9 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hole | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doorway | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mound | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mound | det |
| 15 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sat | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 doorway | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 doorway | det |
| 20 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 daughters | det |
| 22 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sat | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Conaran | case |
| 24 | Conaran | Conaran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 daughters | nmod |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 sat | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great hole like a doorway in the side of the mound | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the daughters of Conaran | that doorway | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location | ||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | the daughters of Conaran not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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