Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 3
He saw then over Duv Laca’s shoulder a little black-faced, tufty-headed cleric leaning against the door-post inside the room.
Who acts: Duv, little faced headed cleric · What happens: see, lean · To what, where: little faced headed cleric, shoulder, room
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, little faced headed cleric), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 saw | advmod |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 shoulder | case |
| 5 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Duv | flat |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Duv | case |
| 8 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cleric | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cleric | amod |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 faced | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 black | punct |
| 13 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cleric | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 faced | punct |
| 15 | tufty | tufty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 headed | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tufty | punct |
| 17 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cleric | amod |
| 18 | cleric | cleric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 19 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 cleric | acl |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 post | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 post | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 post | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 door | punct |
| 24 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaning | obl |
| 25 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 27 room | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 room | det |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaning | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Duv | a little faced headed cleric | Duv's shoulder | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cleric=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | lean | gerund | a little faced headed cleric not said here | the room | against the door post | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against post=Location |
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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