Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 13
Folk of both sorts with towers swaying on their heads, and they dripping with honey.
Who acts: towers, heads · What happens: sway, drip · To what, where: heads
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (towers, heads), 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 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sorts | case |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sorts | det |
| 4 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Folk | nmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 towers | case |
| 6 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sorts | nmod |
| 7 | swaying | sway | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 towers | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heads | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swaying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dripping | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dripping | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dripping | nsubj |
| 14 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 swaying | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 honey | case |
| 16 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dripping | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Folk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sway | gerund | towers not said here | towers's heads | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location | ||||
| 2 | drip | gerund | heads = head | with honey | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with honey=Theme |
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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