Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 48

He loved “what happened,” and would not evade it by the swerve of a hair; so on this occasion what was occurring he would have occur, although a king was his rival and his master.

Who acts: Fionn, occasion, king, hair · What happens: love, happen, not evade, occur, have, be · To what, where: chief, occur, occasion, rival · Speech: someone speaks here

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, occasion, king, hair), 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 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loved	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 evade	cc
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 evade	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 evade	advmod
11	evade	evade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 loved	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 evade	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 swerve	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 swerve	det
15	swerve	swerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 evade	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 hair	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hair	det
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swerve	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	29 have	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 occasion	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 occasion	det
23	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obl
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 occurring	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 occurring	aux
26	occurring	occur	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 occasion	acl:relcl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 loved	conj
30	occur	occur	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rival	punct
32	although	although	SCONJ	_	37 rival	mark
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 king	det
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rival	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 rival	cop
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 rival	nmod:poss
37	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 master	cc
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 master	nmod:poss
40	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rival	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past	Fionn				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen in a quote	past					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not evade	would	Fionn not said here	chief		by the swerve of a hair	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location
4	occur	past · progressive	this occasion				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	would	Fionn	occur	this occasion		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occur=Patient
6	is a	past	a king	Fionn's rival and Fionn's master			tree rules
7	swerve		a hair				nom swerve «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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