Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 31
Iollan knew the appearance of Fionn’s messenger, but he was surprised to see her.
Who acts: Iollan, Fionn · What happens: know, be, see · To what, where: appearance, sister
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, 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 | Iollan | Iollan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 appearance | det |
| 4 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 messenger | case |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 messenger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Fionn | case |
| 8 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appearance | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 surprised | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 surprised | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 surprised | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 surprised | cop |
| 13 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 surprised | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Iollan | the appearance of Fionn's messenger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer appearance=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Fionn | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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