Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 51
It is seldom indeed that a subject can beat a king at chess, and this monarch was properly amazed.
Who acts: enormity, subject, monarch · What happens: be, beat · To what, where: king, chess
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 (enormity, subject, monarch), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 indeed | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 indeed | cop |
| 3 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 4 indeed | advmod |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 20 amazed | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 beat | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 subject | det |
| 7 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beat | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 beat | aux |
| 9 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 indeed | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beat | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 chess | case |
| 13 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 amazed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 amazed | cc |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 monarch | det |
| 17 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 amazed | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 amazed | cop |
| 19 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 20 amazed | advmod |
| 20 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | enormity | indeed, seldom property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beat | can | a subject | a king | chess | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | this monarch | amazed, properly property | tree rules |
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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