Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 1
A new life for Fionn in the robber’s den that was hidden in a vast cold marsh.
What happens: hide · To what, where: den, vast cold marsh
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 life | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Fionn | case |
| 5 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 life | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 den | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 robber | det |
| 8 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 den | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 robber | case |
| 10 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 life | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hidden | aux:pass |
| 13 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 den | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 marsh | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 marsh | det |
| 16 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 marsh | amod |
| 17 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 marsh | amod |
| 18 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hidden | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 life | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · passive | the robber's den | a vast cold marsh | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in marsh=Location |
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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