Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 7

Now the Hag of the Mill was a bony, thin pole of a hag with odd feet.

Who acts: Hag · What happens: be · To what, where: bony thin pole

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 (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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 Hag	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hag	det
3	Hag	Hag	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pole	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Mill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mill	det
6	Mill	Mill	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hag	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pole	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pole	det
9	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pole	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bony	punct
11	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pole	amod
12	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 hag	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hag	det
15	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pole	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 feet	case
17	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feet	amod
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hag	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Hag of the Mill	a bony thin pole				of a hag with odd feet	tree rules

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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