Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 1
In course of time the news came to Fionn that his mother’s sister was not living with Iollan.
Who acts: news, sister · What happens: come, not live · To what, where: Fionn
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, 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 | In | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 time | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 In | fixed |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Fionn | case |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 living | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 living | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 living | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 living | advmod |
| 17 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Iollan | case |
| 19 | Iollan | Iollan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 living | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the news | Fionn | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fionn=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not live | past · progressive | news's mother's sister | with Iollan | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with iollan=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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