Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 42
But there was yet a thud left in my forehead, a deadly trample in my hoof.
Who acts: thud · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: thud, forehead
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 (thud), 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 | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 6 thud | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thud | det |
| 6 | thud | thud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 thud | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forehead | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 10 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trample | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 trample | det |
| 13 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 trample | amod |
| 14 | trample | trample | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thud | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hoof | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hoof | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trample | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a thud and a deadly trample in my hoof | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | a thud and a deadly trample in my hoof not said here | in my forehead result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forehead=Result |
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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