Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 1

He had received all that he could get from Finegas.

Who acts: He · What happens: receive, get · To what, where: all, Finegas

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 received	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	aux
3	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 received	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 get	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 received	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Finegas	case
10	Finegas	Finegas	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past · perfect	He	all					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	could	he			Finegas			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from finegas=Destination

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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