Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 30

Clann-Morna began to stretch itself uneasily, and, one day, his guardians sent him on his travels.

Who acts: Clann, guardians · What happens: begin, stretch, send, travel · To what, where: prowess, Clann

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 (Clann, 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	Clann	Clann	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Morna	punct
3	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Clann	flat
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stretch	mark
6	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 stretch	obj
8	uneasily	uneasily	ADV	_	6 stretch	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sent	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sent	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sent	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 guardians	nmod:poss
16	guardians	guardian	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sent	nsubj
17	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sent	obj
19	on	on	SCONJ	_	21 travels	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 travels	nmod:poss
21	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sent	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Clann				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stretch	to-infinitive	Clann not said here	prowess		uneasily property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
3	send	past	Clann's guardians	Clann	day		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	travel	present	Clann's guardians not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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