Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 26
The time had come for the squires to take their stations behind their masters and mistresses.
Who acts: time · What happens: come, take · To what, where: stations, masters
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 squires | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 squires | det |
| 7 | squires | squire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stations | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 masters | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 masters | nmod:poss |
| 14 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mistresses | cc |
| 16 | mistresses | mistress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 masters | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the time | for the squires | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the time not said here | Kings's stations | Kings's masters and mistresses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Theme |
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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