Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 5
But Fionn was not lonely, and he was not afraid when the son of Midna came.
Who acts: Fionn, son · What happens: not be, come
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, son), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 lonely | cc |
| 2 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lonely | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lonely | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lonely | advmod |
| 5 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 afraid | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 afraid | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 afraid | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 afraid | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 afraid | advmod |
| 11 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lonely | advcl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 came | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Midna | case |
| 16 | Midna | Midna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 afraid | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lonely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Fionn | lonely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | Fionn | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the son of Midna | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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