Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 1
ONE day his guardians were agitated: they held confabulations at which Fionn was not permitted to assist.
Who acts: guardians · What happens: agitate, hold, not permit, assist · To what, where: guardians, confabulations, Fionn
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guardians), 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 | ONE | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agitated | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 guardians | nmod:poss |
| 4 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 agitated | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agitated | aux:pass |
| 6 | agitated | agitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 held | nsubj |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agitated | conj |
| 10 | confabulations | confabulation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 held | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 permitted | obl |
| 13 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 permitted | aux:pass |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 permitted | advmod |
| 16 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 confabulations | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 assist | mark |
| 18 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 permitted | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 agitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agitate | past · passive | his guardians | day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | guardians = guardian | confabulations | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confabulation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not permit | past · passive | Fionn | confabulations | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | assist not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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