Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 28

A proud head hung to the turf then, and the tears of memory rolled from a large, bright eye.

Who acts: proud head, tears · What happens: hang, roll · To what, where: large bright eye

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 (proud head, tears), 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	3 head	det
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 head	amod
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	nsubj
4	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 turf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 turf	det
7	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hung	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rolled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rolled	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tears	det
12	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rolled	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 memory	case
14	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tears	nmod
15	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hung	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	21 eye	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 eye	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eye	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 large	punct
20	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eye	amod
21	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rolled	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	participle	a proud head				then	to the turf	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roll	participle	the tears of memory			a large bright eye			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory

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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