Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 12
Now the Black Hag was not only those things that have been said; she was also whiskered and warty and one-eyed and obstreperous, and she was notorious and ill-favoured in many other ways also.
Who acts: Black Hag, things, Hag · What happens: not be, say, whisker, be, favour · To what, where: things, Hag, many other ways · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Black Hag, things, Hag), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 Hag | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Hag | det |
| 3 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Hag | compound |
| 4 | Hag | Hag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 things | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 things | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 things | advmod |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 things | det |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 said | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | aux:pass |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 things | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 whiskered | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 whiskered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 whiskered | aux:pass |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 whiskered | advmod |
| 18 | whiskered | whisker | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 things | acl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 warty | cc |
| 20 | warty | warty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 whiskered | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 eyed | cc |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 eyed | nummod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 24 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 whiskered | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 obstreperous | cc |
| 26 | obstreperous | obstreperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eyed | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 notorious | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 notorious | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 notorious | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 notorious | cop |
| 31 | notorious | notorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 whiskered | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 favoured | cc |
| 33 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 favoured | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 ill | punct |
| 35 | favoured | favour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 notorious | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 ways | case |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ways | amod |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ways | amod |
| 39 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 favoured | obl |
| 40 | also | also | ADV | _ | 39 ways | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 things | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the Black Hag | that things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | that things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | whisker | past · passive | that things not said here | Hag | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Hag | notorious property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | favour | participle | Hag not said here | many other ways | 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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