Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 32
His guardians knew that their hiding-place must at last be discovered, and that, when it was found, the sons of Morna would come.
Who acts: guardians, sons · What happens: know, discover, find, come · To what, where: hiding place, that · Speech: someone speaks here
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, sons), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 guardians | nmod:poss |
| 2 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 discovered | mark |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 place | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hiding | punct |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 discovered | aux |
| 10 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 discovered | mark |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 discovered | aux:pass |
| 13 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 found | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 found | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knew | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sons | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sons | det |
| 24 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 come | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Morna | case |
| 26 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sons | nmod |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | aux |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 found | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Uail's guardians | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | discover | must · passive | women's hiding place | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | that | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | would | the sons of Morna | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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