Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 73

Fionn then ate the Salmon of Knowledge, and when it had disappeared a great jollity and tranquillity and exuberance returned to the poet.

Who acts: Fionn, praise, great jollity · What happens: eat, disappear, return · To what, where: Salmon

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, praise, great jollity), 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	3 ate	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ate	advmod
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Salmon	det
5	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Knowledge	case
7	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Salmon	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 disappeared	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 disappeared	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 disappeared	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 disappeared	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 disappeared	aux
13	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 ate	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 jollity	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 jollity	amod
16	jollity	jollity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 returned	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tranquillity	cc
18	tranquillity	tranquillity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jollity	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 exuberance	cc
20	exuberance	exuberance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jollity	conj
21	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 disappeared	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 poet	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 poet	det
24	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 returned	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Fionn	the Salmon of Knowledge	then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Patient
2	disappear	past · perfect	praise				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	return	past	a great jollity and tranquillity and exuberance			to the poet result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to poet=Result

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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