Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 23

But it is likely too that they had had their own means of getting information about him.

Who acts: it, sons, likely · What happens: be, have, mean, get · To what, where: own, information · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (it, sons, likely), 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	_	4 likely	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 means	nsubj
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 likely	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	aux
9	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 likely	ccomp
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 had	obj
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 getting	mark
14	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 means	ccomp
15	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 getting	obj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 information	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		likely property	tree rules
2	have	past · perfect	sons = son	sons's own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Patient
3	mean	present	likely			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get	gerund		information	about Fionn	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer information=Stimulus

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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