Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 11

She was dressed in a red rag that was really a hole with a fringe on it, and she was singing “Oh, hush thee, my one love” to a cat that was yelping on her shoulder.

Who acts: red rag, Hag, cat, my · What happens: dress, be, sing, hush, yelp, love · To what, where: Hag, red rag, hole, one love, cat, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (red rag, Hag, cat, my), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	aux:pass
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 rag	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rag	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rag	amod
7	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hole	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hole	cop
10	really	really	ADV	_	12 hole	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rag	acl:relcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 fringe	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fringe	det
15	fringe	fringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hole	nmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fringe	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 singing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 singing	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 singing	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 singing	aux
22	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dressed	advcl
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 hush	punct
24	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	26 hush	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Oh	punct
26	hush	hush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 singing	advcl
27	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 hush	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 love	punct
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 love	nmod:poss
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 love	nummod
31	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 singing	obl
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 love	punct
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 cat	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 cat	det
35	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 singing	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 yelping	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 yelping	aux
38	yelping	yelp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 cat	acl:relcl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 shoulder	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 shoulder	nmod:poss
41	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 yelping	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive		Hag		a red rag		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a	past	a red rag	a hole			with a fringe on fringe	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	past · progressive	Hag	my one love	a cat			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cat=Recipient
4	hush in a quote	infinitive	Hag not said here	thee				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
5	yelp	past · progressive	a cat			Hag's shoulder		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	love in a quote		my					nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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