Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 30
Becuma then put a cloak about her and she went from Tara northward and eastward until she came to the dewy, sparkling Brugh of Angus mac an Og in Ulster, but she was not admitted there.
Who acts: Becuma · What happens: put, go, come, sparkle, not admit · To what, where: cloak, Tara, dewy, Brugh, Becuma
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 (Becuma), 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 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloak | det |
| 5 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Tara | case |
| 12 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eastward | cc |
| 15 | eastward | eastward | ADV | _ | 13 northward | conj |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 dewy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dewy | det |
| 21 | dewy | dewy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sparkling | punct |
| 23 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 came | advcl |
| 24 | Brugh | Brugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sparkling | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 mac | case |
| 26 | Angus | Angus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 mac | compound |
| 27 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Brugh | nmod |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Og | det |
| 29 | Og | Og | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sparkling | xcomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Ulster | case |
| 31 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Og | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 admitted | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 admitted | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 admitted | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 admitted | aux:pass |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 admitted | advmod |
| 37 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 put | conj |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 admitted | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Becuma | a cloak | then | about game | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme about she=Destination | ||
| 2 | go | past | Becuma | Tara | northward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from tara=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | come | past | Becuma | the dewy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dewy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sparkle | gerund | Becuma not said here | Brugh of Angus mac | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brugh=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not admit speech: other | past · passive | Becuma | there | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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