Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 34

They wished to see what destruction had been wrought by the great being, but it was young Fionn they saw and that redoubtable head swinging by its hair.

Who acts: senses, destruction, young Fionn, redoubtable head · What happens: wish, see, wrought, be, swing · To what, where: destruction, young Fionn · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (senses, destruction, young Fionn, redoubtable head), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 destruction	det
6	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrought	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrought	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 wrought	aux:pass
9	wrought	wrought	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 see	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 great	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 great	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wrought	obl
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 great	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 Fionn	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Fionn	cop
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Fionn	amod
19	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 saw	nsubj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 head	cc
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 head	det
24	redoubtable	redoubtable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 head	amod
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	conj
26	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 head	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 hair	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hair	nmod:poss
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 swinging	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	senses = sens			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	senses = sens not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	wrought	past · perfect · passive		what destruction	by the great	tree rules
4	is a	past	destruction	young Fionn		tree rules
5	see	past	young Fionn			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	swing	gerund	that redoubtable head not said here		by destruction's hair	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by hair=Trajectory

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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