Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 29
Around the palace of Morgan there is a palisade of copper spikes, and on the top of each spike the head of a man grins and shrivels.
Who acts: palisade, head · What happens: be, grin, shrivel · To what, where: palace, top
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palisade, head), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 palace | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Morgan | case |
| 5 | Morgan | Morgan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 palace | nmod |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 palisade | det |
| 9 | palisade | palisade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 spikes | case |
| 11 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spikes | compound |
| 12 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 palisade | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 grins | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 grins | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 top | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 top | det |
| 17 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grins | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 spike | case |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 spike | det |
| 20 | spike | spike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 top | nmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 head | det |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grins | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nmod |
| 26 | grins | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 is | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 shrivels | cc |
| 28 | shrivels | shrivel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 grins | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a palisade of copper spikes | the palace of Morgan; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around palace=Location | ||||
| 2 | grin | present | the head of a man | the top of each spike | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shrivel | present | the head of a man not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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