Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 6
Thus, in the dark thick oak forest he slew the seven hags and buried them in the molten lead which they had heated for him.
Who acts: head · What happens: slay, bury, heat · To what, where: seven hags, dark thick oak forest, hags, molten lead
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 (head), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 slew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forest | amod |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forest | amod |
| 7 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forest | compound |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slew | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slew | nsubj |
| 10 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hags | det |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hags | nummod |
| 13 | hags | hag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 slew | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 buried | cc |
| 15 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slew | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 buried | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 lead | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lead | det |
| 19 | molten | molten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lead | amod |
| 20 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buried | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heated | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 heated | aux |
| 24 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 lead | acl:relcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heated | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | head | the seven hags | the dark thick oak forest | thus property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=Patient | ||
| 2 | bury | past | head not said here | hags = hag | the molten lead | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in lead=Destination | |||
| 3 | heat | past · perfect · passive | the molten lead | for head | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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