Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 28
Fionn put a finger into the thong of the great spear, and at that cast night fell on Aillen mac Midna.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: put, fall · To what, where: finger, thong, Aillen mac
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 (Fionn), 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 | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 finger | det |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 thong | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thong | det |
| 7 | thong | thong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 spear | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spear | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spear | amod |
| 11 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thong | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 night | det |
| 16 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 night | compound |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 mac | case |
| 20 | Aillen | Aillen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 mac | compound |
| 21 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 22 | Midna | Midna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 mac | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Fionn | a finger | the thong of the great spear | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal | |||
| 2 | fall | past | Fionn not said here | Aillen mac | night | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on mac=Location |
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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