Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 35
He had beaten the disease of Mugain; he had beaten his own pupil the great Colm Cille; he beat Tuan also, and just as the latter’s door had opened to the persistent stranger, so his heart opened, and Finnian marched there to do the will of God, and his own will.
Who acts: master, heart, Finnian · What happens: beat, open, march, do · To what, where: disease, own pupil, Tuan, latter door, persistent stranger, own
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 (master, heart, Finnian), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beaten | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beaten | aux |
| 3 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 disease | det |
| 5 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beaten | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Mugain | case |
| 7 | Mugain | Mugain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 disease | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 beaten | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beaten | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 beaten | aux |
| 11 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 beaten | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pupil | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pupil | amod |
| 14 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beaten | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Colm | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Colm | amod |
| 17 | Colm | Colm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pupil | appos |
| 18 | Cille | Cille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Colm | flat |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 beat | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beat | nsubj |
| 21 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beaten | conj |
| 22 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 beat | obj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 beat | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 opened | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 opened | cc |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 door | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 door | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 door | det |
| 29 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 door | amod |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 latter | case |
| 31 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 opened | aux |
| 33 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 beaten | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 stranger | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 stranger | det |
| 36 | persistent | persistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 stranger | amod |
| 37 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 opened | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 opened | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 opened | advmod |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 heart | nmod:poss |
| 41 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 opened | nsubj |
| 42 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beaten | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 marched | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 marched | cc |
| 45 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 marched | nsubj |
| 46 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 opened | conj |
| 47 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 marched | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 do | mark |
| 49 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 marched | xcomp |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 God | det |
| 51 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 God | aux |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 God | case |
| 53 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 do | obj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 own | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 own | cc |
| 56 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 own | nmod:poss |
| 57 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 opened | obl |
| 58 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 own | aux |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past · perfect | master | the disease of Mugain | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | past · perfect | master | master's own pupil | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pupil=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beat | past | master | Tuan | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tuan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | past · perfect · passive | the latter door | the persistent stranger | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to stranger=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | open | past | master's heart | master's own | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | march | past | Finnian | there | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | Finnian not said here | the God | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Eventuality |
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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