Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 9
There were troops of young women who giggled as long as their breaths lasted and beamed when it gave out.
Who acts: troops, young women, breaths, skull · What happens: be, giggle, last, beam, give out
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 (troops, young women, breaths, skull), 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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 women | case |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 women | amod |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 troops | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 giggled | nsubj |
| 8 | giggled | giggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 women | acl:relcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 giggled | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 lasted | mark |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 breaths | nmod:poss |
| 13 | breaths | breath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lasted | nsubj |
| 14 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 giggled | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beamed | cc |
| 16 | beamed | beam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lasted | conj |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 gave | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 beamed | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 gave | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | troops of young women | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | giggle | past | young women | long property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | last | past | troops's breaths | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | beam | past | troops's breaths not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give out | past | skull | vn break_down-45.8 «NP 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.
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