Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 27

The stranger was a very tall man, dressed in a green cloak with a silver brooch at the shoulder.

Who acts: stranger · What happens: be, dress · To what, where: tall man, green cloak

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 (stranger), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dressed	punct
9	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 cloak	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cloak	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cloak	amod
13	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dressed	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 brooch	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 brooch	det
16	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 brooch	amod
17	brooch	brooch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cloak	nmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 shoulder	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shoulder	det
20	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brooch	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the stranger	a tall man					tree rules
2	dress	participle		a tall man not said here		a green cloak with a silver brooch at the shoulder			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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