Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 1
EVENING was drawing nigh, and the Fianna-Finn had decided to hunt no more that day.
Who acts: Fianna Finn · What happens: draw, decide, hunt · To what, where: more
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fianna Finn), 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 | EVENING | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drawing | compound |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drawing | aux |
| 3 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 3 drawing | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 decided | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 decided | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Finn | det |
| 8 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Finn | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fianna | punct |
| 10 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 decided | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 decided | aux |
| 12 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 drawing | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hunt | mark |
| 14 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 decided | xcomp |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 hunt | obj |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 more | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drawing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · progressive | nigh property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | decide | past · perfect | the Fianna Finn | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hunt not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Fianna Finn not said here | more | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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