Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 2
It was done, and to his surprise the person turned out to be the Black Hag.
Who acts: person · What happens: do, turn out, be, surprise · To what, where: noise, Black Hag
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 surprise | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 8 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 turned | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 Hag | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Hag | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Hag | det |
| 16 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Hag | compound |
| 17 | Hag | Hag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | noise | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | turn out | past | the person | to person's surprise | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the Black Hag | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | surprise | person | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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