Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 11

Fionn would have heard much of them, and it is likely that he practised on a nettle at taking the head off Goll, and that he hunted a sheep from cover in the implacable manner he intended later on for Cona’n the Swearer.

Who acts: it, Fionn · What happens: hear, be, practise, take, hunt, intend · To what, where: Fionn, nettle, head, Goll, sheep, cover

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Fionn), 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	4 heard	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 much	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 likely	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 likely	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 likely	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 likely	cop
12	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 practised	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 practised	nsubj
15	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 likely	ccomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 nettle	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 nettle	det
18	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 practised	obl
19	at	at	SCONJ	_	20 taking	mark
20	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 practised	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 head	det
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obj
23	off	off	ADP	_	24 Goll	case
24	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hunted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hunted	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 hunted	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hunted	nsubj
29	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sheep	det
31	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hunted	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 cover	case
33	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hunted	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 manner	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 manner	det
36	implacable	implacable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 manner	amod
37	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hunted	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 intended	nsubj
39	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hunted	parataxis
40	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 intended	advmod
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 Cona’n	case
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 Cona’n	case
43	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 intended	obl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Swearer	det
45	Swearer	Swearer	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Cona’n	appos
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	would · perfect · passive		Fionn			tree rules
2	is	present	it			likely property	tree rules
3	practise	past	Fionn		a nettle		tree rules
4	take	gerund	Fionn not said here	the head	Goll		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off goll=Initial_Location
5	hunt	past	Fionn	a sheep	cover	in the implacable manner	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme in manner=Location
6	intend	past	Fionn		Cona’n	late property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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