Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 10
It was hard to get Uct Dealv to meet him, but at last she consented, and they met under the apple boughs of Faery.
Who acts: Uct, Fionn, they · What happens: be, get, meet, consent · To what, where: Uct, last, apple boughs
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 (Uct, Fionn, they), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hard | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hard | cop |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hard | xcomp |
| 6 | Uct | Uct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | Dealv | Dealv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Uct | flat |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 meet | mark |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 get | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 meet | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 consented | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 consented | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 consented | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 consented | nsubj |
| 16 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hard | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 met | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 met | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 met | nsubj |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 consented | conj |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 boughs | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boughs | det |
| 23 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 boughs | compound |
| 24 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 met | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Faery | case |
| 26 | Faery | faery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 boughs | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Uct | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | Uct not said here | Uct | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | consent | past | Fionn | last | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | meet | past | they | the apple boughs of Faery | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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