Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 4
She was seated on a crystal throne with her son Segda by her side, and they welcomed the High King courteously.
Who acts: side, posts · What happens: seat, welcome · To what, where: queen, crystal throne, High King
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 (side, posts), 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 | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | aux:pass |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 throne | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 throne | det |
| 6 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 throne | amod |
| 7 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 son | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throne | nmod |
| 11 | Segda | Segda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 son | appos |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 side | nmod:poss |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 welcomed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 welcomed | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 welcomed | nsubj |
| 18 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 20 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 King | amod |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 welcomed | obj |
| 22 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 18 welcomed | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | queen's side | queen | a crystal throne with queen's son | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Value | |||
| 2 | welcome | past | posts = post | the High King | courteously property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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