Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 23

This time they could not prevent him overhearing.

Who acts: women · What happens: not prevent, overhear · To what, where: 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 (women), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prevent	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prevent	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 prevent	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 prevent	advmod
6	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prevent	obj
8	overhearing	overhear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 prevent	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not prevent	could	women = woman	Fionn			time		tree rules
2	overhear	gerund	women = woman not said here						vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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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