Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 6

But he did tumble and record that the only notable thing about a well is that it is wet.

Who acts: Fionn, that · What happens: do, be · To what, where: tumble

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 (Fionn, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 did	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tumble	tumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 record	cc
6	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tumble	conj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 wet	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
9	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
10	notable	notable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wet	nsubj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 well	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 well	det
14	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	nmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wet	cop
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 wet	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wet	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wet	cop
19	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tumble	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Fionn	tumble and record					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tumble=Eventuality
2	is	present	that					wet 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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