Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 2
Through all that time he slept in misery each night and he rose each day to grief.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: sleep, rise · To what, where: misery, grief
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 time | det:predet |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slept | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 slept | nsubj |
| 6 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 misery | case |
| 8 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slept | obl |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rose | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slept | conj |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 grief | case |
| 17 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | Fionn | misery | night; time | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in misery=Location | |||
| 2 | rise | past | Fionn | grief | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grief=Initial_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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