Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 14
Children having baskets piled with red apples, and old women who peddled shell-fish and boiled lobsters.
Who acts: Children, old women · What happens: have, pile, peddle, boil · To what, where: baskets, shell fish
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 (Children, old women), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Children | acl |
| 3 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 having | obj |
| 4 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 baskets | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 apples | case |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 apples | amod |
| 7 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 piled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 women | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 women | cc |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 women | amod |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Children | conj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 peddled | nsubj |
| 13 | peddled | peddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 women | acl:relcl |
| 14 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fish | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 shell | punct |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peddled | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lobsters | cc |
| 18 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 lobsters | amod |
| 19 | lobsters | lobster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Children | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Children | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Children and old women and boiled lobsters not said here | baskets | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pile | participle | baskets not said here | with red apples | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with apple=Theme | ||||
| 3 | peddle | past | old women | shell fish | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 4 | boil | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/85/14/