Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 22
He went thence to Lock Le’in and took service with the King of Finntraigh.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: go, lock, take · To what, where: Le’in, service
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 Lock | mark |
| 5 | Lock | lock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | xcomp |
| 6 | Le’in | Le'in | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lock | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Finntraigh | case |
| 14 | Finntraigh | Finntraigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Fionn | thence property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lock | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | Le’in | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent le'in=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Fionn not said here | service | with the King of Finntraigh | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=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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