Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 16

Sellers of onions and cheese, and others who supplied spare bits of armour, odd scabbards, spear handles, breastplate-laces.

Who acts: Sellers · What happens: supply · To what, where: spare bits

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 (Sellers), 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	Sellers	seller	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 supplied	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 onions	case
3	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sellers	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cheese	cc
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 onions	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 others	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 others	cc
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 supplied	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 supplied	nsubj
10	supplied	supply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bits	amod
12	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 supplied	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 armour	case
14	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bits	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 scabbards	punct
16	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 scabbards	amod
17	scabbards	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bits	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 handles	punct
19	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 handles	compound
20	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 scabbards	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laces	punct
22	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laces	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 breastplate	punct
24	laces	lace	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 scabbards	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 supplied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	supply	past	Sellers of onions and cheese	spare bits of armour and odd scabbards and spear handles and breastplate laces					vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Recipient

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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