Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 9
Her keen was sung by poets and harpers, and a cairn ten acres wide was heaved over her clay.
Who acts: poets, wife · What happens: sing, heave, keen · To what, where: keen, cairn, clay
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poets, wife), 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 keen | nmod:poss |
| 2 | keen | keen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sung | aux:pass |
| 4 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 poets | case |
| 6 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sung | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 harpers | cc |
| 8 | harpers | harper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poets | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heaved | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heaved | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cairn | det |
| 12 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heaved | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 acres | nummod |
| 14 | acres | acre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cairn | amod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heaved | aux:pass |
| 17 | heaved | heave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sung | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 clay | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 clay | nmod:poss |
| 20 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heaved | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · passive | poets and harpers | wife's keen | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | heave | past · passive | a cairn | wife's clay | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keen | wife | nom keen «communication transitive»: poss=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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