Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 2
“She has got married, and she has been beaten at chess.
Who acts: Lady · What happens: get, beat · To what, where: Lady, chess
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beaten | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beaten | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beaten | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beaten | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 beaten | aux:pass |
| 11 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 chess | case |
| 13 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beaten | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect | Lady | married property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | beat in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Lady | chess | 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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