Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 4

In this island he was met by a lady, Crede’, the Truly Beautiful, and when they had exchanged kisses, he told her who he was and on what errand he was bent.

Who acts: lady, Colpa · What happens: meet, exchange, tell, bend · To what, where: Colpa, island, bees, Crede, errand · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lady, Colpa), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 island	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 island	det
3	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 met	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 met	aux:pass
6	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 lady	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lady	det
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Crede	punct
11	Crede	Crede	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lady	appos
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 Crede	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Beautiful	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Beautiful	det
15	Truly	truly	ADV	_	16 Beautiful	advmod
16	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lady	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 exchanged	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 exchanged	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 exchanged	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 exchanged	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 exchanged	aux
22	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 met	conj
23	kisses	kiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 exchanged	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 met	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 bent	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bent	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 bent	aux:pass
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bent	cc
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 errand	case
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 errand	nsubj
34	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bent	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bent	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 bent	aux:pass
37	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 told	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	meet	past · passive	a lady	Colpa		this island	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent
2	exchange	past · perfect · passive		bees = bee			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	Colpa		Crede		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	bend	past · passive				errand	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on errand=Location

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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