Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 26
And also the expected was happening.
What happens: expect, happen
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: 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 | _ | 6 happening | cc |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 happening | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 happening | det |
| 4 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 the | acl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happening | aux |
| 6 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | happen | past · progressive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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