Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 27
Behind every hour of their day and every moment of their lives lay the sons of Morna.
What happens: lie · To what, where: sons
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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 day | nmod:poss |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hour | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 moment | cc |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lives | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lives | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 moment | nmod |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sons | det |
| 15 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lay | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Morna | case |
| 17 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sons | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the sons of Morna | hour | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location son=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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