Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 24
She had long soft hair that was yellow as gold, and soft as the curling foam of the sea.
Who acts: One, long soft hair · What happens: have, be · To what, where: long soft hair
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, long soft hair), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | amod |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | amod |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 yellow | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 yellow | cop |
| 8 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | acl:relcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yellow | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 soft | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 soft | cc |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 foam | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 foam | det |
| 16 | curling | curling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 foam | amod |
| 17 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soft | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foam | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | One | long soft hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | long soft hair | as gold; yellow property | tree rules |
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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