Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 15

If they were not youngsters, the bold Fiacuil could not have managed them all.

Who acts: poets · What happens: not be, not manage · To what, where: youngsters

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poets), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 youngsters	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 youngsters	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 youngsters	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 youngsters	advmod
5	youngsters	youngster	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 managed	nsubj:pass
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 youngsters	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fiacuil	det
8	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Fiacuil	amod
9	Fiacuil	Fiacuil	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 managed	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 managed	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 managed	advmod
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 managed	aux
13	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 managed	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 them	nmod:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a a condition, not said to happen	past	poets = poet	youngsters					tree rules
2	not manage	could · perfect · passive		youngsters					tree rules

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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