Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 25
Her eyes were wide and clear as water and were grey as a dove’s breast.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: be
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 (eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wide | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wide | cop |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 clear | cc |
| 6 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wide | conj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clear | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grey | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grey | cop |
| 11 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wide | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 breast | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dove | det |
| 14 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 breast | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 dove | case |
| 16 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grey | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One's eyes | wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | One's eyes not said here | as water | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | One's eyes not said here | as a dove's breast; grey 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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