Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 40
In that joyous company he came to wide Allen of Leinster, where the people were surprised to see the hounds and the fawn and the Chief and none other of the hunters that had set out with them.
Who acts: Fionn, people · What happens: come, be, see, set out · To what, where: wide Allen, joyous company, hounds, hunters
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 (Fionn, people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 company | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 company | det |
| 3 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 company | amod |
| 4 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Allen | case |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Allen | amod |
| 9 | Allen | Allen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Leinster | case |
| 11 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Allen | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 surprised | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 surprised | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 surprised | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 surprised | cop |
| 17 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 surprised | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hounds | det |
| 21 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fawn | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fawn | det |
| 24 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hounds | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Chief | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Chief | det |
| 27 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 fawn | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 none | cc |
| 29 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 24 fawn | conj |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 none | amod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 hunters | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hunters | det |
| 33 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 other | obl |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 set | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 set | aux |
| 36 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 hunters | acl:relcl |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 set | compound:prt |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 set | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Fionn | wide Allen of Leinster | that joyous company | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to allen=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | the people | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the people not said here | the hounds and the fawn and the Chief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hound=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | set out | past · perfect · passive | the hunters | with hounds = hound | 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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