Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 18
Others who put a shoe on your horse or a piece of embroidery on your mantle; and others, again, who took stains off your sword or dyed your finger-nails or sold you a hound.
Who acts: Others · What happens: put, be, stain off, dye, sell · To what, where: shoe, mantle, others, sword, hound, you
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 (Others), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 others | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Others | acl:relcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shoe | det |
| 5 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 piece | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 piece | det |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horse | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 embroidery | case |
| 13 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piece | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 mantle | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 others | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 others | cc |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 again | punct |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 others | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stains | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 stains | nsubj |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 who | cop |
| 25 | stains | stain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 others | parataxis |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 stains | compound:prt |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sword | nmod:poss |
| 28 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stains | obj |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 nails | cc |
| 30 | dyed | dye | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 nails | amod |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 nails | nmod:poss |
| 32 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 nails | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 finger | punct |
| 34 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sword | conj |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 sold | cc |
| 36 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stains | conj |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 sold | obj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 hound | det |
| 39 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sold | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 others | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | Others | a shoe | your mantle | on your horse or a piece of embroidery | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme on horse=Destination | ||
| 2 | is a | past | others | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stain off | present | others | your sword or your dyed finger nails | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Destination | ||||
| 4 | dye | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sell | past | others not said here | a hound | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient hound=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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