Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 25

He was to go back into Faery when the time came, and to come thence again to tell these tales, for it was by him these tales were told.

Who acts: Fianna, time, tale · What happens: be, come, tell · To what, where: Faery, tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fianna, time, tale), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 Faery	case
7	Faery	Faery	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
16	thence	thence	ADV	_	17 again	advmod
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	advcl
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 tales	det
21	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tell	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 him	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 him	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 him	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 him	cop
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
28	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 tales	det
29	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 told	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 told	aux:pass
31	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 tell	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Fianna		Faery		go property	tree rules
2	come	past	the time					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	to-infinitive	Fianna not said here			again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Fianna not said here	this tales				tree rules
5	is	past	tale				by Fianna	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	past · passive		this tales				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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