Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 2

It was thatched with the wings of birds, blue wings and yellow and white wings, and in the centre of the house there was a door of crystal set in posts of bronze.

Who acts: door · What happens: thatch, be, set · To what, where: house, centre, crystal, posts

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thatched	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thatched	aux:pass
3	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 wings	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wings	det
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thatched	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 birds	case
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wings	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wings	punct
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wings	amod
11	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 birds	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wings	cc
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wings	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 white	cc
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 yellow	conj
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 birds	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 was	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 centre	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 centre	det
21	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 house	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 house	det
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 centre	nmod
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thatched	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 crystal	case
30	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 door	nmod
31	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 crystal	acl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 posts	case
33	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 set	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 bronze	case
35	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 posts	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thatched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thatch	past · passive		house		with the wings of birds and blue wings and yellow wings	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with wing=Theme
2	be	past	a door of crystal		the centre of the house; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in centre=Location
3	set	participle		crystal not said here	posts of bronze		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in post=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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