Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 34
Tuiren was then asked in marriage by Lugaidh who had loved her so long.
Who acts: Lugaidh · What happens: ask, love · To what, where: Tuiren, marriage
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 (Lugaidh), 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 | Tuiren | Tuiren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 marriage | case |
| 6 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Lugaidh | case |
| 8 | Lugaidh | Lugaidh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 loved | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 loved | aux |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 asked | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 loved | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | Tuiren | marriage | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | love | past · perfect · passive | Lugaidh | Tuiren | long property | tree rules |
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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