Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 6

Fionn asked every question he could think of, and his master, who was a poet, and so an honourable man, answered them all, not to the limit of his patience, for it was limitless, but to the limit of his ability.

Who acts: Fionn, master, honourable man, snail · What happens: ask, think, be, answer · To what, where: question, poet, questions

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, master, honourable man, snail), 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	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 question	det
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 question	acl:relcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 think	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 master	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 master	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 master	nmod:poss
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 poet	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 poet	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 poet	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 poet	det
17	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 master	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 answered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 answered	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	25 answered	advmod
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 answered	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
25	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 answered	obj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 them	nmod:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 limit	punct
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 limit	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 limit	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 limit	det
32	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 answered	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 patience	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 patience	nmod:poss
35	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 limit	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 limitless	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 limitless	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 limitless	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 limitless	cop
40	limitless	limitless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 answered	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 limit	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 limit	cc
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 limit	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 limit	det
45	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 ability	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 ability	nmod:poss
48	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 limit	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Fionn	every question		to the limit of Fionn's ability; Fionn's master and a poet obl	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	think speech: other	could	Fionn	every question not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot question=Theme
3	is a	past	Fionn's master and a poet	a poet			tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	past	a honourable man		questions = question	to the limit of Fionn's patience	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
5	is	past	snail			limitless 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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