Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 30
Fionn’s way of discovering whatever was happening and hidden was always the same and is many times referred to.
Who acts: way, whatever · What happens: discover, happen, hide, be, refer · To what, where: many times
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 (way, whatever), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Fionn | case |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 same | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 discovering | mark |
| 5 | discovering | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 way | acl |
| 6 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 happening | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happening | aux |
| 8 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 discovering | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hidden | cc |
| 10 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 discovering | conj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 same | cop |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 same | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 same | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 referred | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 referred | aux:pass |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 times | amod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 same | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 referred | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | gerund | Fionn's way not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · progressive | whatever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hide | participle | Fionn's way not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Fionn's way | always, same property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | refer | present · passive | many times | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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