Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 3
Iollan was in a sad condition when this demand was made.
Who acts: Iollan · What happens: be, make · To what, where: sad condition, demand
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 (Iollan), 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 | Iollan | Iollan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 condition | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 condition | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 condition | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 condition | det |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 condition | amod |
| 6 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 demand | det |
| 9 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 condition | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 condition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Iollan | a sad condition | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | this demand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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