Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 8

And when he had asked his question, and given his own answer to it, Finegas would take the matter up and make clear to him where the query was badly formed or at what point the answer had begun to go astray, so that Fionn came to understand by what successions a good question grows at last to a good answer.

Who acts: Fionn, Finegas, successions · What happens: ask, give, take up, make, form, begin · To what, where: question, own answer, answer, matter, Fionn, query

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, Finegas, successions), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 asked	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 asked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	aux
5	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 question	nmod:poss
7	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 given	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 given	cc
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 asked	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 answer	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 answer	amod
13	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 given	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 given	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
17	Finegas	Finegas	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 take	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asked	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 matter	det
21	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	19 take	compound:prt
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 make	cc
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	conj
25	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 make	xcomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 make	obl
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 formed	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 query	det
30	query	query	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 formed	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 formed	aux:pass
32	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 formed	advmod
33	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 make	advcl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 begun	cc
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 what	case
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 begun	obl
37	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 begun	aux
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 answer	det
39	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 begun	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 begun	aux
41	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 formed	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 go	mark
43	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 begun	xcomp
44	astray	astray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 go	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 came	punct
46	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	49 came	mark
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 so	fixed
48	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 came	nsubj
49	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 begun	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 understand	mark
51	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 came	xcomp
52	by	by	ADP	_	53 what	case
53	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 understand	obl
54	successions	succession	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 grows	nsubj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 question	det
56	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 question	amod
57	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 grows	nsubj
58	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 what	acl:relcl
59	at	at	ADP	_	60 last	case
60	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 grows	xcomp
61	to	to	ADP	_	64 answer	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 answer	det
63	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 answer	amod
64	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 last	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	Fionn	Fionn's question			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	give	participle		Fionn's own answer	answer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent answer=Theme to it=Recipient
3	take up	would	Finegas	the matter			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme
4	make	infinitive	Finegas not said here		Fionn	clear property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	form	past · passive		the query		badly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	begin	present · perfect · passive		the answer			tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive				astray property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come	past	Fionn				tree rules
9	understand	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	grow	present	successions			last property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	question		Fionn				nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent
12	answer		Fionn				nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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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