Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 45
Then he changed the old mare into a brisk, piebald palfrey.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: change · To what, where: old mare
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 (Mongan), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 changed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mare | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mare | amod |
| 6 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 palfrey | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 palfrey | det |
| 9 | brisk | brisk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 palfrey | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brisk | punct |
| 11 | piebald | piebald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 palfrey | amod |
| 12 | palfrey | palfrey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Mongan | the old mare | then | into a brisk piebald palfrey result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent mare=Patient into palfrey=Result |
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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