Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 10

His chest was pulled inwards, and his head was stuck outwards and hung down in the place where his chest should have been, and his arms were crooked in front of him with the hands turned wrongly, so that one palm was shown to the east of the world and the other one was turned to the west.

Who acts: head, hands · What happens: pull, be, hang down, crook, turn, show · To what, where: chest, place, arms, one palm, east, other one

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, hands), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 chest	nmod:poss
2	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	aux:pass
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	inwards	inwards	ADV	_	4 pulled	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stuck	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stuck	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stuck	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stuck	cop
11	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pulled	parataxis
12	outwards	outwards	ADV	_	11 stuck	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hung	cc
14	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 hung	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 place	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 been	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 chest	nmod:poss
21	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 been	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 been	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 been	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 place	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 crooked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 crooked	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arms	nmod:poss
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 crooked	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 crooked	aux:pass
30	crooked	crook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pulled	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 front	case
32	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 crooked	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 front	nmod
35	with	with	SCONJ	_	38 turned	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hands	det
37	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 turned	nsubj
38	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 crooked	advcl
39	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	_	38 turned	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 shown	punct
41	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	46 shown	mark
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 so	fixed
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 palm	nummod
44	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 shown	nsubj:pass
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 shown	aux:pass
46	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 turned	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 east	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 east	det
49	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 shown	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 world	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 world	det
52	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 east	nmod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 turned	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 one	det
55	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 one	amod
56	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 turned	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 turned	aux:pass
58	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 east	conj
59	to	to	ADP	_	61 west	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 west	det
61	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 turned	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull	past · passive		pleasure's chest			inwards property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	past	pleasure's head				outwards, stuck property	tree rules
3	hang down	past				the place		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
4	crook	past · passive		pleasure's arms			in front of pleasure	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in front=Topic
5	turn	past	the hands				wrongly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	show	past · passive		one palm	the east of the world			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to east=Recipient
7	turn	past · passive		the other one		the west		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to west=Trajectory

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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