Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 17

And of how at last, when the time came to quell him, nothing less than the whole might of Ireland was sufficient for that great downfall.

Who acts: time, nothing · What happens: come, quell, be · To what, where: feat

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 (time, nothing), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 last	cc
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 last	case
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 last	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 last	case
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 last	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 quell	mark
12	quell	quell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 quell	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nothing	punct
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 sufficient	nsubj
16	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 nothing	amod
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 whole	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 whole	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 less	obl
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sufficient	aux
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Ireland	case
22	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 sufficient	obl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sufficient	cop
24	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 downfall	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 downfall	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 downfall	amod
28	downfall	downfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sufficient	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the time			tree rules
2	quell	to-infinitive	the time not said here	feat		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	is	might	nothing		of Ireland; for that great downfall; sufficient 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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