Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 24
As the men were captured they were carried by the hags into dark mysterious holes and black perplexing labyrinths.
Who acts: hags · What happens: capture, carry, perplex · To what, where: men, dark mysterious holes
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hags), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 captured | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 captured | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 captured | aux:pass |
| 5 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 carried | advcl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | aux:pass |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 hags | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hags | det |
| 11 | hags | hag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carried | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 holes | case |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 holes | amod |
| 14 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 holes | amod |
| 15 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carried | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 labyrinths | cc |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 labyrinths | amod |
| 18 | perplexing | perplex | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 labyrinths | amod |
| 19 | labyrinths | labyrinth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 holes | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past · passive | the men | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | past · passive | the hags | men = man | dark mysterious holes and black perplexing labyrinths | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | perplex | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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