Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 6

But it is far more likely that his women guardians had already started him at those lessons.

Who acts: ogham, women guardians · What happens: be, have, start · To what, where: Fionn, lessons

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 (ogham, women guardians), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 likely	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 likely	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 likely	advmod
6	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 women	nmod:poss
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 guardians	compound
10	guardians	guardian	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 likely	advcl
12	already	already	ADV	_	13 started	advmod
13	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 likely	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 started	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 lessons	case
16	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 lessons	det
17	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 started	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 likely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	ogham			likely property	tree rules
2	have	past	women guardians				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	start	past	ogham not said here	Fionn	that lessons		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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