Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 22
Then he pulled the hood of his cloak over his ears and over his brow.
Who acts: gathering · What happens: pull · To what, where: hood, ears
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 (gathering), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hood | det |
| 5 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cloak | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hood | nmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 ears | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ears | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pulled | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brow | cc |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 brow | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ears | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | gathering | the hood of gathering's cloak | gathering's ears and gathering's brow | then | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=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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