Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2

A monstrous fleet rounded the bluffs of Ben Edair, and the Danes landed there, to prepare an attack which would render them masters of the country.

Who acts: monstrous fleet, Danes, attack · What happens: round, land, prepare, render · To what, where: bluffs, attack, Danes

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 (monstrous fleet, Danes, attack), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fleet	det
2	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fleet	amod
3	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rounded	nsubj
4	rounded	round	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bluffs	det
6	bluffs	bluff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rounded	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Ben	case
8	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bluffs	nmod
9	Edair	Edair	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ben	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 landed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 landed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Danes	det
13	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 landed	nsubj
14	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rounded	parataxis
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 landed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 prepare	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 prepare	mark
18	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 landed	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 attack	det
20	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prepare	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 render	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 render	aux
23	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 attack	acl:relcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 render	obj
25	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 render	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 country	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 country	det
28	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 masters	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	round	past	a monstrous fleet	the bluffs of Ben		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bluff=Patient
2	land	past	the Danes		there	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	prepare	to-infinitive	the Danes not said here	a attack		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Patient
4	render	would	a attack	Danes = dane		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient master=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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