Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 14
But the Ulster gentleman refused Finnian admittance.
Who acts: Ulster gentleman · What happens: refuse · To what, where: Finnian admittance
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulster gentleman), 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 | _ | 5 refused | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gentleman | det |
| 3 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gentleman | compound |
| 4 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refused | nsubj |
| 5 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Finnian | finnian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 admittance | amod |
| 7 | admittance | admittance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refused | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the Ulster gentleman | Finnian admittance | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admittance=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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