Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 9
Fionn’s mother was beautiful, long-haired Muirne: so she is always referred to.
Who acts: mother · What happens: be, refer · To what, where: mother
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Fionn | case |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Muirne | punct |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Muirne | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 9 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Muirne | amod |
| 10 | Muirne | Muirne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 beautiful | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 referred | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 referred | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 referred | aux:pass |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 referred | advmod |
| 16 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 beautiful | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 referred | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Fionn's mother | long haired Muirne obl; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | refer | present · passive | mother | always property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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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