Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 20

Then for some time Iollan did not come to Faery, and Uct Dealv marvelled at that, while her sister made an hundred surmises, each one worse than the last.

Who acts: Iollan, Uct, sister · What happens: not come, marvell, make · To what, where: Faery, that, hundred surmises

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, Uct, sister), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 come	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
5	Iollan	Iollan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 come	advmod
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Faery	case
10	Faery	Faery	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 marvelled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 marvelled	cc
13	Uct	Uct	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 marvelled	nsubj
14	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Uct	flat
15	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 marvelled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 made	mark
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sister	nmod:poss
21	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 marvelled	conj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 surmises	det
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 surmises	nummod
25	surmises	surmise	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 surmises	appos
29	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 made	xcomp
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 last	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 last	det
32	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 worse	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	past · do-support	Iollan		Faery	then; time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to faery=Initial_Location
2	marvell	past	Uct		that			tree rules
3	make	past	Uct's sister	a hundred surmises			bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surmise=Product

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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