Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 15
There were people who sold twenty kinds of bread, with butter thrown in.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, sell, throw · To what, where: twenty kinds, butter
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 (people), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sold | nsubj |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 6 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 kinds | nummod |
| 7 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sold | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bread | case |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kinds | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 butter | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 butter | case |
| 12 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sold | parataxis |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 butter | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 thrown | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sell | past | people | twenty kinds of bread | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | participle | butter not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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