Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 9
Each breeze that came from the right hand or the left brought me a tale.
Who acts: breeze · What happens: come, bring · To what, where: right hand, tale, me
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 (breeze), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 breeze | det |
| 2 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 breeze | acl:relcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hand | amod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 left | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 left | det |
| 11 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | conj |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tale | det |
| 15 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | each breeze | the right hand or the left | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | each breeze | a tale | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination tale=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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