Irish Fairy Tales, Irish Fairy Tales, sentence 3

THE STORY OF TUAN MAC CAIRILL THE BOYHOOD OF FIONN THE BIRTH OF BRAN OISI’N’S MOTHER THE WOOING OF BECFOLA THE LITTLE BRAWL AT ALLEN THE CARL OF THE DRAB COAT THE ENCHANTED CAVE OF CESH CORRAN BECUMA OF THE WHITE SKIN MONGAN’S FRENZY

Who acts: LITTLE BRAWL · What happens: coat, enchant, woo · To what, where: ENCHANTED CAVE, BECFOLA

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Irish Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LITTLE BRAWL), 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	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 STORY	det
2	STORY	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	OF	of	ADP	_	5 MAC	case
4	TUAN	TUAN	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 MAC	compound
5	MAC	MAC	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 STORY	nmod
6	CAIRILL	CAIRILL	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 MAC	flat
7	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 BOYHOOD	det
8	BOYHOOD	boyhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 STORY	appos
9	OF	of	ADP	_	10 FIONN	case
10	FIONN	FIONN	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 BOYHOOD	nmod
11	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 BIRTH	det
12	BIRTH	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 BOYHOOD	conj
13	OF	of	ADP	_	17 MOTHER	case
14	BRAN	BRAN	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 MOTHER	nmod:poss
15	OISI’N	OISI'N	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 BRAN	flat
16	’S	's	PART	_	14 BRAN	case
17	MOTHER	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 BIRTH	nmod
18	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 WOOING	det
19	WOOING	wooing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 MOTHER	appos
20	OF	of	ADP	_	21 BECFOLA	case
21	BECFOLA	BECFOLA	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 WOOING	nmod
22	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 BRAWL	det
23	LITTLE	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 BRAWL	amod
24	BRAWL	brawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 COAT	nsubj
25	AT	at	ADP	_	26 ALLEN	case
26	ALLEN	ALLEN	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 BRAWL	nmod
27	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 CARL	det
28	CARL	CARL	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 COAT	nsubj
29	OF	of	ADP	_	31 DRAB	case
30	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 DRAB	det
31	DRAB	drab	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 CARL	nmod
32	COAT	coat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 WOOING	acl:relcl
33	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 CAVE	det
34	ENCHANTED	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 CAVE	amod
35	CAVE	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 COAT	obj
36	OF	of	ADP	_	38 CORRAN	case
37	CESH	CESH	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 CORRAN	compound
38	CORRAN	CORRAN	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 CAVE	nmod
39	BECUMA	BECUMA	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 CORRAN	flat
40	OF	of	ADP	_	43 SKIN	case
41	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 SKIN	det
42	WHITE	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 SKIN	amod
43	SKIN	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 CORRAN	nmod
44	MONGAN	MONGAN	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 SKIN	appos
45	’S	's	PART	_	44 MONGAN	case
46	FRENZY	frenzy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 SKIN	conj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	coat	infinitive	the LITTLE BRAWL at ALLEN	the ENCHANTED CAVE of CESH CORRAN of the WHITE SKIN and FRENZY	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination
2	enchant	participle			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	woo			BECFOLA	nom wooing «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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