Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 7

A cloak was laid gently about his shoulders, and he was glad of it, for his own was soiled by exposure to sun and wind and water, and was not worthy of a lady’s eye.

Who acts: King, exposure · What happens: lay, be, soil, not be · To what, where: cloak

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 (King, exposure), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laid	aux:pass
4	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 laid	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 shoulders	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoulders	nmod:poss
8	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 glad	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 glad	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 glad	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 glad	cop
13	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laid	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 glad	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 soiled	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 own	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 own	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 soiled	obl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 soiled	aux:pass
21	soiled	soil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 laid	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 exposure	case
23	exposure	exposure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 soiled	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 sun	case
25	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exposure	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wind	cc
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exposure	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 water	cc
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exposure	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 worthy	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 worthy	cc
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 worthy	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 worthy	advmod
34	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 soiled	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	39 eye	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lady	det
37	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eye	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 lady	case
39	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 worthy	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past · passive		a cloak	about King's shoulders; gently property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme about shoulder=Destination
2	is	past	King		of cloak; glad property	tree rules
3	soil	past · passive	exposure to sun and wind and water		for King's own	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	exposure to sun and wind and water not said here		of a lady's eye; worthy 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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