Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 8
The Black Hag then pronounced judgement, and the king had to fulfil it.
Who acts: Black Hag, king · What happens: pronounce, have, fulfil · To what, where: judgement
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 (Black Hag, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hag | det |
| 2 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hag | compound |
| 3 | Hag | Hag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pronounced | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 pronounced | advmod |
| 5 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | judgement | judgement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pronounced | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pronounced | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fulfil | mark |
| 13 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fulfil | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | past | the Black Hag | judgement | then | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgement=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fulfil | to-infinitive | the king not said here | judgement | 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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