Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 4

They would know tags of rhyme and tricks about learning which Fionn would hear of; and now and again, as they rested in a glade or by the brink of a river, they might try their lessons over.

Who acts: poets, tricks · What happens: know, learn, hear, rest, try over, tag · To what, where: tags, glade, lessons, rhyme · Speech: someone speaks here

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, tricks), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tags	tag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 know	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 rhyme	case
6	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tags	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tricks	cc
8	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rhyme	conj
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 learning	mark
10	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 tricks	acl
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hear	nsubj
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hear	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	aux
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 learning	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 hear	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 now	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 now	cc
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 know	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 again	cc
20	again	again	ADV	_	18 now	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rested	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 rested	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rested	nsubj
24	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 know	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 glade	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 glade	det
27	glade	glade	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rested	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 brink	cc
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 brink	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 brink	det
31	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 glade	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 river	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 river	det
34	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 brink	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 try	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 try	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 try	aux
38	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	parataxis
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 lessons	nmod:poss
40	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 try	obj
41	over	over	ADV	_	38 try	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	poets = poet	tags of rhyme and tricks		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tag=Stimulus
2	learn	gerund	tricks not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hear	would						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	rest	past	poets = poet		a glade or the brink of a river			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glade=Location
5	try over	might	poets = poet	poets's lessons			over property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality
6	tag			rhyme and tricks				nom tag «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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