Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 60

The belling of a stag had been music to Fionn, but when Saeve spoke that was sound enough for him.

Who acts: belling, Saeve, that · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: music, Fionn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (belling, Saeve, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 belling	det
2	belling	belling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 music	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stag	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stag	det
5	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belling	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 music	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 music	cop
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Fionn	case
10	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 music	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sound	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 sound	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 spoke	advmod
14	Saeve	Saeve	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 spoke	nsubj
15	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sound	advcl
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 sound	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sound	cop
18	sound	sound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 music	conj
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 sound	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sound	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 music	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	the belling of a stag	music	Fionn		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	Saeve				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	that			for Saeve; enough, sound property	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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