Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 2
She was passionate and fierce, and because the blood would flood suddenly to her cheek, so that she who had seemed a lily became, while you looked upon her, a rose, she was called Flame Lady.
Who acts: wife, blood, lily, you · What happens: be, flood, have, seem, become, look · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, blood, lily, you), 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 | 3 passionate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passionate | cop |
| 3 | passionate | passionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fierce | cc |
| 5 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 passionate | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flood | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flood | cc |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 flood | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blood | det |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flood | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 flood | aux |
| 12 | flood | flood | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 passionate | conj |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 flood | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 cheek | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seemed | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 seemed | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seemed | nsubj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 she | acl:relcl |
| 23 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flood | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lily | det |
| 25 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 became | nsubj |
| 26 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seemed | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 looked | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 looked | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 looked | nsubj |
| 30 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 became | conj |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 looked | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rose | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 rose | det |
| 35 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 called | punct |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 called | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 called | aux:pass |
| 39 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 passionate | parataxis |
| 40 | Flame | Flame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Lady | compound |
| 41 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 called | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passionate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | passionate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | wife not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | flood | would | the blood | to wife's cheek; suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | seem | past | wife | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | become | past | a lily | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | look | past | you | upon wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | call | past · passive | wife | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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