Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 5
All the hounds of the Fianna were out, for Fionn had now given up hope of encountering the Flower of Allen.
Who acts: hounds, hope · What happens: be, give up, encounter · To what, where: Fionn, Flower
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 (hounds, hope), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 hounds | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hounds | det |
| 3 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 out | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Fianna | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fianna | det |
| 6 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hounds | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 out | cop |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 given | mark |
| 11 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 given | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 given | advmod |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 out | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 given | compound:prt |
| 16 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obj |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 encountering | mark |
| 18 | encountering | encounter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 hope | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Flower | det |
| 20 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 encountering | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Allen | case |
| 22 | Allen | Allen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Flower | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 out | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all hounds of the Fianna | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give up | past · perfect · passive | Fionn | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | encounter | gerund | hope not said here | the Flower of Allen | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
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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