Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 2

The hag that guarded the jewels was in the room.

Who acts: hag · What happens: guard, be · To what, where: jewels, room

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hag), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hag	det
2	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 room	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 guarded	nsubj
4	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hag	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jewels	det
6	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guarded	obj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 room	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 room	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past	the hag	the jewels					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Beneficiary
2	is	past	the hag			the room			tree rules

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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