Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 20
A great pillar an hundred feet high had been built on the roof of Morgan’s palace, and on the top of this pillar a tiny room had been constructed, and in this room Delvcaem was a prisoner.
Who acts: Delvcaem · What happens: build, construct, be · To what, where: great pillar, roof, tiny room, top, prisoner, room
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Delvcaem), 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 pillar | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pillar | amod |
| 3 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 feet | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 feet | nummod |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 high | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pillar | amod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 built | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 built | aux:pass |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 roof | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roof | det |
| 13 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 15 | Morgan | Morgan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Morgan | case |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roof | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 constructed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 constructed | cc |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 top | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 top | det |
| 22 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 constructed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pillar | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 pillar | det |
| 25 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 top | nmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 room | det |
| 27 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 room | amod |
| 28 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 constructed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 constructed | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 constructed | aux:pass |
| 31 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 built | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 prisoner | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 prisoner | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 room | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 room | det |
| 36 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 prisoner | obl |
| 37 | Delvcaem | Delvcaem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 prisoner | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 prisoner | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 prisoner | det |
| 40 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · perfect · passive | a great pillar | the roof of Morgan's palace | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on roof=Source | ||||
| 2 | construct | past · perfect · passive | a tiny room | the top of this pillar | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Delvcaem | a prisoner | this room | tree rules |
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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