Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 2
And trews being the vest and breeches united in one piece, and ornamented with fringes, were very comfortable, and suitable to be worn in walking or dancing.
Who acts: trews, vest · What happens: be, breech, ornament, wear · To what, where: vest, one piece, walking
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trews, vest), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 trews | cc |
| 2 | trews | trew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 vest | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 vest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vest | det |
| 5 | vest | vest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 breeches | cc |
| 7 | breeches | breech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 vest | acl:relcl |
| 8 | united | united | ADV | _ | 7 breeches | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 piece | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 piece | nummod |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breeches | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ornamented | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ornamented | cc |
| 14 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 vest | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fringes | case |
| 16 | fringes | fringe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 comfortable | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fringes | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 comfortable | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 comfortable | advmod |
| 20 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ornamented | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 suitable | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 suitable | cc |
| 23 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 comfortable | amod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 worn | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 worn | aux:pass |
| 26 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 suitable | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 walking | case |
| 28 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 worn | obl |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 dancing | cc |
| 30 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 walking | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | trews | the vest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | breech | present | the vest not said here | one piece | united property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ornament | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | with fringes; comfortable property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wear | to-infinitive · passive | walking or dancing | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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