Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 15

Little by little the boy came to understand their speech and to speak it himself, and at last he was able to tell his story to Fionn.

Who acts: Little little boy, boy, champions · What happens: come, understand, speak, be, tell · To what, where: speech, last, story, Fionn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little little boy, boy, champions), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 little	case
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 understand	mark
8	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	xcomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 speech	nmod:poss
10	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 understand	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 speak	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 speak	mark
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 understand	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 speak	obj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 speak	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 able	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 able	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 able	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 able	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 able	cop
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 tell	mark
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 story	nmod:poss
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Fionn	case
28	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Little little boy					tree rules
2	understand	to-infinitive	the Little little boy not said here	champions's speech				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the Little little boy not said here	speech				tree rules
4	is	past	boy			last	able property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	boy not said here	boy's story	Fionn			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to fionn=Recipient
6	speak		champions = champion					nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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