Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 3

As well as being monarch of Ireland her High King was chief of the people learned in magic, and it is possible that at some time Conn had adventured into Tir na n-Og, the Land of the Young, and had done some deed or misdeed in Aillen’s lordship or in his family.

Who acts: High King chief, chief, Conn · What happens: be, learn, adventure, do · To what, where: High King chief, magic, Tir, deed, lordship

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 (High King chief, chief, Conn), 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	As	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	16 learned	advmod
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 As	fixed
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 monarch	case
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 monarch	cop
5	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 As	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Ireland	case
7	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 monarch	nmod
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 chief	nmod:poss
9	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chief	amod
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 chief	compound
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 chief	cop
12	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 learned	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 people	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 chief	nmod
16	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 magic	case
18	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 learned	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 possible	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 possible	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 possible	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 possible	cop
23	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 learned	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 adventured	mark
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 adventured	obl
28	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 adventured	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 adventured	aux
30	adventured	adventure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 possible	advcl
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 Tir	case
32	Tir	Tir	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 adventured	obl
33	na	na	ADV	Typo=Yes	30 adventured	obl:agent
34	n	n	X	_	33 na	flat
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Og	punct
36	Og	Og	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 na	goeswith
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Land	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Land	det
39	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Og	appos
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 Young	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Young	det
42	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Land	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 done	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 done	cc
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 done	aux
46	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 learned	conj
47	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	48 deed	det
48	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 done	obj
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 misdeed	cc
50	misdeed	misdeed	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 deed	conj
51	in	in	ADP	_	54 lordship	case
52	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 lordship	nmod:poss
53	’s	's	PART	_	52 Aillen	case
54	lordship	lordship	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 done	obl
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 family	cc
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 family	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 family	nmod:poss
58	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 lordship	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund					as monarch; of Ireland	tree rules
2	is a	past		Ireland's High King chief			of the people	tree rules
3	learn	past	Ireland's High King chief		magic			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	chief				possible property	tree rules
5	adventure	past · perfect	Conn		Tir	time		tree rules
6	do	past · perfect	Ireland's High King chief not said here	some deed or misdeed	Aillen's lordship or Aillen's family			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality

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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