Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 28
He had a golden band about his hair and golden sandals on his feet, and he was laughing heartily at the plight of the men of Ireland.
Who acts: king · What happens: have, laugh, plight · To what, where: golden band, plight, men
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 (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 band | det |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 band | amod |
| 5 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 hair | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 band | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sandals | cc |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sandals | amod |
| 11 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hair | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sandals | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laughing | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laughing | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 laughing | aux |
| 19 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 had | advcl |
| 20 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 19 laughing | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 plight | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 plight | det |
| 23 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laughing | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 men | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 men | det |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 plight | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Ireland | case |
| 28 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 men | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | king | a golden band | about king's hair and golden sandals on king's feet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient | |||
| 2 | laugh | past · progressive | king | the plight of the men of Ireland | heartily property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | plight | the men of Ireland | nom plight «state transitive»: of=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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