Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 9
Fionn even may have been embarrassed by their too close attendance.
Who acts: close attendance, Bran · What happens: embarrass, attend · To what, where: Fionn
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 (close attendance, Bran), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 embarrassed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 embarrassed | advmod |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 embarrassed | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 embarrassed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 embarrassed | aux:pass |
| 6 | embarrassed | embarrass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 attendance | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 attendance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 close | advmod |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 attendance | amod |
| 11 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 embarrassed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 embarrassed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embarrass | may · perfect · passive | Bran's close attendance | Fionn | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | attend | Bran | nom attendance «act 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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