Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 29

It was her head that rolled on the ground when the combat was over, and it was her head that grinned and shrivelled on the vacant spike which she had reserved for Art’s.

Who acts: star, head, combat · What happens: be, roll, grin, shrivell, reserve · To what, where: head, ground, vacant spike

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 (star, head, combat), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 head	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 head	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 rolled	nsubj
6	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 head	acl:relcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolled	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 over	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 combat	det
12	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 over	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 over	cop
14	over	over	ADV	_	6 rolled	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 head	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 head	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 head	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 head	cop
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolled	obl:unmarked
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 grinned	nsubj
22	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 head	acl:relcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shrivelled	cc
24	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 grinned	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 spike	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 spike	det
27	vacant	vacant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spike	amod
28	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shrivelled	obl
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 reserved	nsubj:pass
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reserved	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 reserved	aux
32	reserved	reserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 spike	acl:relcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 Art	case
34	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 reserved	obl
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Art	case
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 head	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	star	girl's head			tree rules
2	roll	past	girl's head		the ground		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory
3	is	past	the combat			over property	tree rules
4	is a	past	star	girl's head			tree rules
5	grin	past	girl's head				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	shrivell	participle	girl's head not said here		the vacant spike		tree rules
7	reserve	past · perfect · passive		the vacant spike		for Art	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for art=Beneficiary

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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