Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 28

At a little to their right there was a thin uncomely bridge that waggled across the torrent.

Who acts: thin uncomely bridge · What happens: be, waggle · To what, where: thin uncomely bridge, little, torrent

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thin uncomely bridge), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 little	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bridge	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 right	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 right	nmod:poss
6	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bridge	obl
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bridge	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bridge	det
10	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bridge	amod
11	uncomely	uncomely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bridge	amod
12	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 waggled	nsubj
14	waggled	waggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bridge	acl:relcl
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 torrent	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 torrent	det
17	torrent	torrent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 waggled	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 bridge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a thin uncomely bridge		a little		to waters's right	tree rules
2	waggle	past	a thin uncomely bridge			the torrent			vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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