Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 5
She was clad in iron plate, and she had a wicked sword by her side and a knobby club in her hand She halted by the bodies of her sisters, and bitter tears streamed down into her beard.
Who acts: Conaran, bitter tears · What happens: clad, have, halt, stream down · To what, where: Conaran, iron plate, wicked sword, hand, beard
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conaran, bitter tears), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clad | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clad | aux:pass |
| 3 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 plate | case |
| 5 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plate | compound |
| 6 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clad | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clad | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sword | det |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sword | amod |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 side | nmod:poss |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 club | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 club | det |
| 19 | knobby | knobby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 club | amod |
| 20 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 club | nmod |
| 24 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 halted | nsubj |
| 25 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hand | acl:relcl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 bodies | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bodies | det |
| 28 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 halted | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sisters | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bodies | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 streamed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 streamed | cc |
| 34 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tears | amod |
| 35 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 streamed | nsubj |
| 36 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 clad | conj |
| 37 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 streamed | compound:prt |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 beard | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 beard | nmod:poss |
| 40 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 streamed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clad | past · passive | Conaran | iron plate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Conaran | a wicked sword | by Conaran's side and a knobby club in Conaran's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | |||
| 3 | halt | past | Conaran | Conaran's hand not said here | by the bodies of Conaran's sisters | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | stream down | participle | bitter tears | Conaran's beard | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into beard=Location |
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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