Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 18

It was at that terrible moment that Fionn stood up.

Who acts: face, that · What happens: be, stand up

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 (face, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 moment	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moment	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 moment	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 moment	det
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moment	amod
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stood	nsubj
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moment	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 stood	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 moment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	face				at that terrible moment		tree rules
2	stand up	past	that						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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