Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 26
That night there was a feast, and after the feast there was a banquet, and all through the feast and the banquet the King of Leinster stared at Duv Laca with joy, and sometimes his breast was delivered of great sighs, and at times he moved as though in perturbation of spirit and mental agony.
Who acts: feast, King · What happens: be, deliver, move, perturb · To what, where: Duv, breast, perturbation, spirit
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 stared | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 feast | det |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stared | cc |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 feast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stared | obl |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 stared | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 banquet | det |
| 15 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stared | cc |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 feast | advmod |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 feast | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 feast | det |
| 21 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stared | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 banquet | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 banquet | det |
| 24 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feast | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 stared | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Leinster | case |
| 28 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 King | nmod |
| 29 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 Duv | case |
| 31 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 stared | obl |
| 32 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Duv | flat |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 joy | case |
| 34 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stared | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 delivered | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 delivered | cc |
| 37 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 41 delivered | advmod |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 breast | nmod:poss |
| 39 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 delivered | aux:pass |
| 41 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 stared | parataxis |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 sighs | case |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 sighs | amod |
| 44 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 delivered | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 moved | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 moved | cc |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 times | case |
| 48 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 moved | obl |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 moved | nsubj |
| 50 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 delivered | conj |
| 51 | as | as | ADV | _ | 50 moved | advmod |
| 52 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 54 perturbation | mark |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 perturbation | case |
| 54 | perturbation | perturbation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 moved | obl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 spirit | case |
| 56 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 perturbation | nmod |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 agony | cc |
| 58 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 agony | amod |
| 59 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 perturbation | conj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the feast and the banquet | Duv | after the feast | with joy; stare property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | deliver | past · passive | King's breast | of great sighs; sometimes property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme of sigh=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | move | past | King | perturbation of spirit and mental agony | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in perturbation=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | perturb | spirit | nom perturbation «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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