Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 1
When Iollan and Tuiren were married they went to Ulster, and they lived together very happily.
Who acts: Iollan · What happens: marry, go, live together · To what, where: Iollan, Ulster
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iollan), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 married | advmod |
| 2 | Iollan | Iollan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Tuiren | cc |
| 4 | Tuiren | Tuiren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iollan | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 went | advcl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Ulster | case |
| 10 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 lived | advmod |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 happily | advmod |
| 17 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 14 lived | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | Iollan and Tuiren | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Iollan | Ulster | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ulster=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | live together | past | Iollan | happily, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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