Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 33
Besides that, they were Fionn’s own cousins.
Who acts: whelps · What happens: be
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 (whelps), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 were | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 were | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cousins | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Fionn | case |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cousins | amod |
| 9 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | whelps = whelp | besides that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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