Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 24

The game was set then, and her play was so skilful that Art was hard put to counter her moves.

Who acts: play, mother · What happens: set, be, put, counter, play, move · To what, where: game, Art, moves

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play, mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux:pass
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 set	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 skilful	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 skilful	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 play	nmod:poss
9	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skilful	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 skilful	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 skilful	advmod
12	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 set	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 put	mark
14	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 put	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 put	aux:pass
16	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 put	advmod
17	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 skilful	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 counter	case
19	counter	counter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 put	xcomp
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 moves	nmod:poss
21	moves	move	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 counter	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · passive		the game	then		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	is	past	mother's play			skilful property	tree rules
3	put	past · passive		Art		hard property	tree rules
4	counter	infinitive		mother's moves			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Theme
5	play		mother				nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
6	move		mother				nom move «act intransitive»: 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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