Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 30
Then Art liberated Delvcaem from her prison at the top of the pillar and they were affianced together.
Who acts: Art · What happens: liberate, affiance · To what, where: Delvcaem, prison, craft
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 (Art), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 liberated | advmod |
| 2 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 liberated | nsubj |
| 3 | liberated | liberate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Delvcaem | Delvcaem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 liberated | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 prison | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prison | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 liberated | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 liberated | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pillar | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pillar | det |
| 13 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 affianced | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 affianced | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 affianced | aux:pass |
| 17 | affianced | affiance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 liberated | conj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 affianced | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 liberated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liberate | past | Art | Delvcaem | girl's prison | then | at the top of the pillar | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent delvcaem=Theme from prison=Source | |
| 2 | affiance | past · passive | craft | together property | 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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