Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 1
“When you had been away for a day the guards were surprised.
Who acts: you, guards · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, guards), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 surprised | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 away | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 away | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 away | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 away | cop |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 surprised | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 guards | det |
| 11 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 surprised | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 surprised | cop |
| 13 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past · perfect | you | day | away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the guards | surprised 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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