Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 29

But reports of his prowess were getting abroad.

Who acts: reports · What happens: get, report · To what, where: prowess

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 (reports), 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	_	7 getting	cc
2	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 getting	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 prowess	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 prowess	nmod:poss
5	prowess	prowess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reports	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 getting	aux
7	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	7 getting	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 getting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	reports of Fionn's prowess					abroad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	report			Fionn's prowess					nom report «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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