Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 46
He gathered the things which pleased him best from among the treasures of its grisly king, and with Delvcaem by his side they stepped into the coracle.
Who acts: husband, things · What happens: gather, step, treasure · To what, where: things, coracle, grisly king
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 (husband, things), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 things | det |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gathered | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | acl:relcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 8 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 treasures | case |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 treasures | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 treasures | det |
| 12 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pleased | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 king | nmod:poss |
| 15 | grisly | grisly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 king | amod |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 treasures | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stepped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stepped | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 20 | Delvcaem | Delvcaem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nsubj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 side | nmod:poss |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stepped | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stepped | nsubj |
| 25 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gathered | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 coracle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 coracle | det |
| 28 | coracle | coracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stepped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | husband | the things | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | step | past | things = thing | the coracle | with husband's side | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into coracle=Destination | |||
| 3 | treasure | land's grisly king | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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