Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 5

The three sisters then tied the heroes with every kind of loop and twist and knot that could be thought of.

Who acts: three sisters · What happens: tie, think · To what, where: heroes, twist

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 (three sisters), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sisters	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sisters	nummod
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	nsubj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tied	advmod
5	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heroes	det
7	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 kind	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 loop	case
12	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kind	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 twist	cc
14	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kind	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knot	cc
16	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twist	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 thought	nsubj:pass
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 thought	aux:pass
20	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 twist	acl:relcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 thought	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	the three sisters	the heroes			then	with every kind of loop and twist and knot	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent hero=Patient with kind=Co-Patient
2	think speech: other	could · passive		twist and knot					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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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