Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 11

“Ah, how that end of the journey was hard!

Who acts: end · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 hard	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 hard	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hard	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 hard	advmod
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hard	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 journey	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 journey	det
9	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hard	cop
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	that end of the journey					hard property	tree rules

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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