Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 41
When the others reached home, the Chief told of his chase, and it was agreed that such a fawn must not be killed, but that it should be kept and well treated, and that it should be the pet fawn of the Fianna.
Who acts: others, Chief, company · What happens: reach, tell, agree, not kill, keep, treat · To what, where: company, fawn, pet fawn · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (others, Chief, company), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 others | det |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Chief | det |
| 8 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 chase | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chase | nmod:poss |
| 12 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 agreed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 agreed | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 agreed | aux:pass |
| 17 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 told | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 killed | mark |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 fawn | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fawn | det |
| 21 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 killed | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 killed | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 killed | aux:pass |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 agreed | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 kept | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 kept | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 kept | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 kept | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 kept | aux:pass |
| 32 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 told | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 treated | cc |
| 34 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 treated | advmod |
| 35 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 kept | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fawn | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 fawn | cc |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 fawn | mark |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 fawn | nsubj |
| 40 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 fawn | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 fawn | cop |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 fawn | det |
| 43 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fawn | compound |
| 44 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | parataxis |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Fianna | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Fianna | det |
| 47 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 fawn | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the others | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Chief | of Chief's chase | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past · passive | company | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not kill | must · passive | such fawn | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | keep | should · passive | company | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | treat | participle | well property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | should | company | the pet fawn | of the Fianna | tree rules | |||
| 8 | chase | Chief | nom chase «act transitive»: poss=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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