Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 40
But as to Fergus Fionnliath, he took to his bed, and he stayed there for a year and a day suffering from blighted affection, and he would have died in the bed only that Fionn sent him a special pup, and in a week that young hound became the Star of Fortune and the very Pulse of his Heart, so that he got well again, and he also lived happily ever after.
Who acts: Lugaidh, day, Fionn, young hound · What happens: take, stay, suffer, blight, die, send · To what, where: blighted affection, special pup, Lugaidh, week, Heart
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, day, Fionn, young hound), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 Fergus | case |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Fergus | case |
| 4 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 5 | Fionnliath | Fionnliath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fergus | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fergus | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bed | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stayed | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stayed | nsubj |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 stayed | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 year | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 day | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 year | conj |
| 23 | suffering | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 day | acl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 affection | case |
| 25 | blighted | blight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 affection | amod |
| 26 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 suffering | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 died | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 died | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 died | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 died | aux |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 died | aux |
| 32 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 stayed | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 bed | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bed | det |
| 35 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 died | obl |
| 36 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 sent | advmod |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 sent | mark |
| 38 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 sent | nsubj |
| 39 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 died | advcl |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 sent | obj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 pup | det |
| 42 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 pup | amod |
| 43 | pup | pup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sent | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 week | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 week | cc |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 week | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 week | det |
| 48 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl:unmarked |
| 49 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 became | obj |
| 50 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 hound | amod |
| 51 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 became | nsubj |
| 52 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 week | acl:relcl |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Star | det |
| 54 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 became | xcomp |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 Fortune | case |
| 56 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Star | nmod |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 Pulse | cc |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 Pulse | det |
| 59 | very | very | ADV | _ | 60 Pulse | advmod |
| 60 | Pulse | pulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 Star | conj |
| 61 | of | of | ADP | _ | 63 Heart | case |
| 62 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 Heart | nmod:poss |
| 63 | Heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 Pulse | nmod |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 got | punct |
| 65 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 68 got | mark |
| 66 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 65 so | fixed |
| 67 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 68 got | nsubj |
| 68 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 became | conj |
| 69 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 68 got | advmod |
| 70 | again | again | ADV | _ | 68 got | advmod |
| 71 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 75 lived | punct |
| 72 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 75 lived | cc |
| 73 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 75 lived | nsubj |
| 74 | also | also | ADV | _ | 75 lived | advmod |
| 75 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 68 got | conj |
| 76 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 75 lived | advmod |
| 77 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 78 after | advmod |
| 78 | after | after | ADV | _ | 75 lived | advmod |
| 79 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Lugaidh | week | as Fergus; to Lugaidh's bed result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result | |||
| 2 | stay | past | Lugaidh | there | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | suffer | gerund | a day not said here | blighted affection | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | blight | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | die | would · perfect | Lugaidh | in the bed | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bed=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | send | past | Fionn | a special pup | Lugaidh | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination pup=Theme | |||
| 7 | become | past | young hound | a week | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient that=Result | ||||
| 8 | get | past | Lugaidh | again | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 9 | live | past | Lugaidh | after, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | pulse | Lugaidh's Heart | nom pulse «event transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/32/40/