Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 28
He brought Ivell over to the king then and gave her three kisses.
Who acts: Branduv · What happens: bring over, give · To what, where: Ivell, king, three kisses, Mongan
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Branduv), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ivell | Ivell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 brought | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 brought | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 kisses | nummod |
| 13 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring over | past | Branduv | Ivell | the king | then | over property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ivell=Theme to king=Destination | |
| 2 | give | past | Branduv not said here | three kisses | Mongan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kiss=Theme |
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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