Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 122
Heavy was the flesh and weary the spirit of Leinster's king. '
Who acts: Heavy · What happens: be, weary · To what, where: flesh, spirit
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heavy), 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 | Heavy | heavy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flesh | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flesh | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flesh | det |
| 4 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 weary | cc |
| 6 | weary | weary | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flesh | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spirit | det |
| 8 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weary | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 10 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 king | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Leinster | case |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spirit | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flesh | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 flesh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Heavy | the flesh | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weary | infinitive | Heavy not said here | the spirit of Leinster's king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spirit=Experiencer |
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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