Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 7
In no long time the five wise hounds could have given over their guardianship, so complete was the recognition of their young lord.
What happens: give, be · To what, where: five wise hounds, guardianship, complete recognition
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hounds | det |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hounds | nummod |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hounds | amod |
| 8 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 given | aux |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 guardianship | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 guardianship | nmod:poss |
| 14 | guardianship | guardianship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognition | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 complete | advmod |
| 17 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 recognition | amod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 recognition | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 recognition | det |
| 20 | recognition | recognition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 lord | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lord | nmod:poss |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lord | amod |
| 24 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recognition | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | could · perfect · passive | the five wise hounds | Bran's guardianship | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the complete recognition | of Bran's young lord | 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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