Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 9
One of his feet turned pitifully outwards, and the other turned lamentably in.
Who acts: One, other · What happens: turn
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 (One, other), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 feet | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 feet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | pitifully | pitifully | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 7 | outwards | outwards | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 13 | lamentably | lamentably | ADV | _ | 14 in | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | One | outwards, pitifully property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the other | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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