Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 25

But at a point of the game Becuma grew thoughtful, and, as by a lapse of memory, she made a move which gave the victory to her opponent.

Who acts: game, move, memory · What happens: grow, make, give, point, lapse · To what, where: point, move, victory, opponent, game

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 (game, move, memory), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 grew	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 point	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 point	det
4	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 game	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 point	nmod
8	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 game	appos
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 lapse	case
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 lapse	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lapse	det
17	lapse	lapse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 memory	case
19	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lapse	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lapse	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grew	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 move	det
24	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 move	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 victory	det
28	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 opponent	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 opponent	nmod:poss
31	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past				a point of the game	thoughtful property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at point=Location
2	make	past	game	a move			as a lapse of memory	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Product
3	give	past	a move	the victory	game's opponent			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent victory=Theme to opponent=Recipient
4	point			the game				nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	lapse		memory					nom lapse «act intransitive»: of=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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