Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 2
His education was finished and the time had come to test it, and to try all else that he had of mind and body.
Who acts: time, Finegas · What happens: finish, come, test, try, have, educate · To what, where: education
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 (time, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 education | nmod:poss |
| 2 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux:pass |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 come | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 finished | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 test | mark |
| 11 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 test | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 try | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 try | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 try | mark |
| 16 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | parataxis |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 else | advmod |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 try | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 try | advcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mind | case |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 body | cc |
| 25 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mind | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | Finegas's education | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | the time | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | test | to-infinitive | the time not said here | education | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | else property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | have | past | Finegas | of mind and body | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | educate | Finegas | nom education «act 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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