Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 18
But the great champion gave a twist of his hips and a swing of his shoulders that whirled her around him like a sack.
Who acts: great champion, swing, shoulders · What happens: give, whirl, twist, swing · To what, where: twist, stroke, hips
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great champion, swing, shoulders), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 champion | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 champion | amod |
| 4 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 twist | det |
| 7 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hips | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hips | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hips | hip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 twist | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 whirled | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 swing | det |
| 13 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whirled | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 shoulders | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 swing | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 whirled | nsubj |
| 18 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 whirled | obj |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 whirled | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 sack | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sack | det |
| 24 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whirled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the great champion | a twist of Goll's hips | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whirl | past | a swing of Goll's shoulders | stroke | around Goll; like a sack | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme around he=Destination | |||
| 3 | twist | Goll's hips | nom twist «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | swing | Goll's shoulders | nom swing «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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