Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 22
She went home and put on her nicest clothes.
Who acts: One · What happens: go, put · To what, where: nicest clothes
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 clothes | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nicest | nice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 clothes | amod |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | One | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | One not said here | One's nicest clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination |
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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