Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 10

One of her eyes was set where her nose should be and there was an ear in its place, and her nose itself was hanging out of her chin, and she had whiskers round it.

Who acts: ear, nose, Hag · What happens: set, be, hang out, have · To what, where: One, place, chin, whiskers

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ear, nose, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 set	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 eyes	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	aux:pass
6	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 be	advmod
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nose	nmod:poss
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 be	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 set	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 was	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ear	det
16	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 place	nmod:poss
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hanging	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hanging	cc
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 nose	nmod:poss
23	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hanging	nsubj
24	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	23 nose	nmod:unmarked
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hanging	aux
26	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 set	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 chin	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 chin	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 chin	nmod:poss
30	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hanging	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 had	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	parataxis
35	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 had	obj
36	round	round	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past · passive		One of Hag's eyes			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	be	past	a ear		ear's place; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
3	hang out	past · progressive	Hag's nose ear	Hag's chin			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chin=Patient
4	have	past	Hag	whiskers		round ear	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisker=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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