Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 14

But Fionn was so far beyond them in swimming that even the word master did not apply to that superiority.

Who acts: Fionn, word master · What happens: be, not apply · To what, where: swimming

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, word master), 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	_	9 swimming	cc
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 swimming	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 swimming	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 swimming	advmod
6	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 far	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 swimming	case
9	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 apply	obj
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 master	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 master	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 master	compound
14	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 apply	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 apply	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 apply	advmod
17	apply	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 swimming	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 superiority	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 superiority	det
20	superiority	superiority	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 apply	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 swimming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Fionn			swimming		far property	tree rules
2	not apply	past · do-support	the word master	swimming				to that superiority	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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