Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 15
There was an old, knock-kneed, raw-boned, one-eyed, little-winded, heavy-headed mare with her also.
Who acts: old · What happens: be, knock, knee, bone, head
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 (old), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 old | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knock | punct |
| 6 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | parataxis |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 kneed | punct |
| 8 | kneed | knee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 knock | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boned | punct |
| 10 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boned | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 raw | punct |
| 12 | boned | bone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 kneed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eyed | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 eyed | nummod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 16 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boned | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 winded | punct |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 winded | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 little | punct |
| 20 | winded | winded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyed | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mare | punct |
| 22 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 headed | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 heavy | punct |
| 24 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 mare | amod |
| 25 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 winded | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 mare | nmod |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 kneed | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a old | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | knock | infinitive | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | knee | participle | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bone | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | head | participle | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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