Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 55
She came from the midst of the counsellors and magicians.
Who acts: Tara · What happens: come · To what, where: midst
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 (Tara), 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 | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 midst | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 midst | det |
| 5 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 counsellors | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 counsellors | det |
| 8 | counsellors | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 midst | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 magicians | cc |
| 10 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 counsellors | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Tara | the midst of the counsellors and magicians | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from midst=Initial_Location |
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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