Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2
Conn asked her, therefore, all the questions that he could think of, for it is not every day that a lady drives from the sea, and she wearing a golden-fringed cloak of green silk through which a red satin smock peeped at the openings.
Who acts: Conn, authority, lady · What happens: ask, think, not be, drive, wear, fringe · To what, where: her, sea, golden fringed cloak, red satin smock
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, authority, lady), 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 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 questions | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 questions | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 questions | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 questions | det |
| 9 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 questions | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 think | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 day | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 day | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 day | advmod |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 drives | mark |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 lady | det |
| 24 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drives | nsubj |
| 25 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 day | advcl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drives | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wearing | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wearing | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 wearing | nsubj |
| 32 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 cloak | det |
| 34 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 cloak | amod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 golden | punct |
| 36 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 cloak | amod |
| 37 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wearing | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 silk | case |
| 39 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 silk | amod |
| 40 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cloak | nmod |
| 41 | through | through | ADP | _ | 42 which | case |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 smock | nsubj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 smock | det |
| 44 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 smock | amod |
| 45 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 smock | compound |
| 46 | smock | smock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wearing | parataxis |
| 47 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 smock | acl |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 openings | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 openings | det |
| 50 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 peeped | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Conn | her = she | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | could | Conn | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | authority | for every day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drive | present | a lady | the sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | wear | gerund | lady | a golden fringed cloak of green silk | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fringe | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | smock | tree rules | |||||||
| 8 | peep | participle | a red satin smock not said here | at the openings | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at opening=Theme |
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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