Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 23
They came to Fergus Fionnliath’s stronghold, and Uct Dealv demanded admittance.
Who acts: terms, Uct · What happens: come, demand · To what, where: stronghold, admittance
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terms, Uct), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 stronghold | case |
| 4 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stronghold | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Fionnliath | Fionnliath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fergus | flat |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Fergus | case |
| 7 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 demanded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 demanded | cc |
| 10 | Uct | Uct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 demanded | nsubj |
| 11 | Dealv | Dealv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Uct | flat |
| 12 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 13 | admittance | admittance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 demanded | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | terms = term | Fergus's stronghold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stronghold=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | Uct | admittance | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme admittance=Precondition |
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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