Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 29

He flew to acquaint his master, and Fergus himself came to the great door of the stronghold.

Who acts: servant, Fergus · What happens: fly, acquaint, come · To what, where: master, great door

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 (servant, Fergus), 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	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 acquaint	mark
4	acquaint	acquaint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flew	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 master	nmod:poss
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 acquaint	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
9	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	9 Fergus	nmod:unmarked
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 door	amod
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 stronghold	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stronghold	det
18	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fly	past	servant			tree rules
2	acquaint speech: other	to-infinitive	servant not said here	servant's master		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
3	come	past	Fergus servant		the great door of the stronghold	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location

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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