Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 8

Now Fionn, the son of Uail, was the reverse of Fergus Fionnliath in this matter, for he delighted in dogs, and he knew everything about them from the setting of the first little white tooth to the rocking of the last long yellow one.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: be, know · To what, where: reverse, matter, everything, setting

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Fionn	advmod
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 reverse	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fionn	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Uail	case
7	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fionn	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reverse	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reverse	det
11	reverse	reverse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Fergus	case
13	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 reverse	nmod
14	Fionnliath	Fionnliath	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Fergus	flat
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 matter	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 matter	det
17	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reverse	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 delighted	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 delighted	case
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 delighted	nsubj
21	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 reverse	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 dogs	case
23	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 delighted	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knew	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 delighted	conj
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 knew	obj
29	about	about	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 everything	nmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 setting	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 setting	det
33	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knew	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	39 tooth	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tooth	det
36	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	39 tooth	amod
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tooth	amod
38	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tooth	amod
39	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 setting	nmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 rocking	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 rocking	det
42	rocking	rocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tooth	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	48 one	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 one	det
45	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 one	amod
46	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 one	amod
47	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 one	amod
48	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rocking	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 reverse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fionn	the reverse	this matter	of Fergus	tree rules
2	be		Fionn			in dogs	tree rules
3	know	past	Fionn	everything	the setting of the first little white tooth to the rocking of the last long yellow one	about dogs = dog	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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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