--- title: She was clad in iron plate, and she had a wicked sword by her side a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She was clad in iron plate, and she had a wicked sword by her side and a knobby club in her hand She halted by the bodies of her sisters, and bitter tears streamed down into her beard. Who acts: Conaran, bitter tears. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conaran, bitter tears), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:61:5 # text = She was clad in iron plate, and she had a wicked sword by her side and a knobby club in her hand She halted by the bodies of her sisters, and bitter tears streamed down into her beard. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 clad clad VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 knobby knobby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 halted halt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 streamed stream VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clad** | past · passive | | Conaran | | iron plate | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | Conaran | a wicked sword | | | | by Conaran's side and a knobby club in Conaran's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | | 3 | **halt** | past | Conaran | Conaran's hand *not said here* | | | | by the bodies of Conaran's sisters | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality | | 4 | **stream down** | participle | bitter tears | | | Conaran's beard | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into beard=Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/61/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/61/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/61/)