Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 4

He guessed that Uct Dealv had a hand in the disappearance of his queen, and he begged that time should be given him in which to find the lost girl.

Who acts: demand, Uct, queen · What happens: guess, have, beg, give, find, lose · To what, where: hand, disappearance, time, demand, lost girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (demand, Uct, queen), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guessed	nsubj
2	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
4	Uct	Uct	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
5	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Uct	flat
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guessed	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hand	det
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 disappearance	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 disappearance	det
11	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 queen	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 queen	nmod:poss
14	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disappearance	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begged	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begged	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 begged	nsubj
18	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guessed	conj
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 given	nsubj:pass
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 given	aux:pass
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 begged	ccomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 given	iobj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 given	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 find	mark
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 which	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 girl	det
30	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 girl	amod
31	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	guess	past	demand				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	Uct	a hand		the disappearance of demand's queen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	beg speech: request	past	demand				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	should · passive		that time	demand		tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive		the lost girl			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic
6	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	disappear		demand's queen				nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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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