Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 9
One day, not long after the conversation told of, Finegas came to the place where Fionn was.
Who acts: Finegas · What happens: tell, come · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Finegas), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 told | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 conversation | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 conversation | det |
| 8 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obl |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 told | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 12 | Finegas | Finegas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 was | advmod |
| 18 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | after the conversation | long property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Finegas | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location |
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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