Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 20
Everything had been done by him as it should be done.
Who acts: Fire · What happens: do · To what, where: Everything, conception
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fire), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 done | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 done | aux:pass |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 done | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect · passive | Fire | Everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | should · passive | conception | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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