Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 22
She was wiser than all the other women of that land, and she was skilful in music, embroidery, and chastity, and in all else that pertained to the knowledge of a queen.
Who acts: pillar, that · What happens: be, pertain · To what, where: music
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 (pillar, that), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wiser | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wiser | cop |
| 3 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 women | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 women | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 women | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 women | amod |
| 8 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wiser | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 women | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 skilful | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 skilful | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 skilful | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 skilful | cop |
| 16 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wiser | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 music | case |
| 18 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skilful | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 embroidery | punct |
| 20 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 music | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 chastity | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 chastity | cc |
| 23 | chastity | chastity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 music | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pertained | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pertained | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 pertained | advmod |
| 28 | else | else | ADV | _ | 27 all | advmod |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 pertained | nsubj |
| 30 | pertained | pertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 skilful | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 knowledge | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 knowledge | det |
| 33 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pertained | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 queen | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 queen | det |
| 36 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 knowledge | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wiser | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | pillar | than all other women of that land; wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | pillar | music and embroidery and chastity | skilful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pertain | past | that | to the knowledge of a queen | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to knowledge=Co-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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