Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 12
The hearts of young men went hot for a gallant moment and were chilled in the succeeding one, for they had all heard of Aillen out of Shl Finnachy in the north.
Who acts: hearts · What happens: go, chill, succeed, hear · To what, where: hearts, Shl
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearts), 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 hearts | det |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearts | nmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 10 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 moment | amod |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chilled | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 chilled | aux:pass |
| 14 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | succeeding | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 one | nsubj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 chilled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 heard | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | aux |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 heard | advmod |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 chilled | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Aillen | case |
| 26 | Aillen | Aillen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | obl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 Shl | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Shl | case |
| 29 | Shl | Shl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | obl |
| 30 | Finnachy | Finnachy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Shl | flat |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 north | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 north | det |
| 33 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the hearts of young men | moment | hot property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | chill | past · passive | the hearts of young men not said here | in the one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | succeed | gerund | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect · passive | hearts = heart | Shl | of Aillen; in the north; all property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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