Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 1
It happened that the men of Lochlann came on an expedition against Ireland.
Who acts: It, men · What happens: happen, come · To what, where: expedition
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, men), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Lochlann | case |
| 7 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 men | nmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 expedition | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 expedition | det |
| 11 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 Ireland | case |
| 13 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 expedition | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the men of Lochlann | a expedition against Ireland | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on expedition=Location |
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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