Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 20

When he was six years of age his mother, beautiful, long-haired Muirne, came to see him.

Who acts: silence · What happens: be, come, see · To what, where: silence

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 age	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 age	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 age	cop
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 age	nmod:unmarked
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 age	case
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 age	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beautiful	punct
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mother	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Muirne	punct
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Muirne	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
15	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Muirne	amod
16	Muirne	Muirne	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mother	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 age	punct
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is	past	silence		of age and silence's mother; year	tree rules
2	come	past				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive		silence		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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