Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 10
Dermod mac Ae delighted in these solitary adventures, and when he could steal a day from policy and affairs he would send word privily to Crimthann.
Who acts: Dermod · What happens: steal, send · To what, where: policy, word
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dermod), 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 | Dermod | Dermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dermod | flat |
| 3 | Ae | Ae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dermod | flat |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 adventures | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 adventures | det |
| 7 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 adventures | amod |
| 8 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 delighted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 steal | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 steal | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 steal | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 steal | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 steal | aux |
| 14 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 steal | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 policy | case |
| 18 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 steal | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 affairs | cc |
| 20 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 policy | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 send | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 send | aux |
| 23 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 affairs | acl:relcl |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 send | obj |
| 25 | privily | privily | ADV | _ | 23 send | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Crimthann | case |
| 27 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 privily | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | could | Dermod | policy and affairs | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | would | Dermod | word | privily property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
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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