Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 27
She was dressed in full armour, and she challenged Art to fight with her.
Who acts: girl · What happens: dress, challenge, fight · To what, where: girl, full armour, Art
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 (girl), 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 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 armour | case |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 armour | amod |
| 6 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 challenged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 challenged | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 challenged | nsubj |
| 10 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 11 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 challenged | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fight | mark |
| 13 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 challenged | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fight | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | girl | full armour | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | challenge | past | girl | Art | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | girl not said here | with girl | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent |
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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