Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 11
The boy, having donned his hunting gear, would join the king at a place arranged between them, and then they ranged abroad as chance might direct.
Who acts: boy, affairs, chance · What happens: don, join, arrange, range, direct · To what, where: hunting gear, king, place
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 (boy, affairs, chance), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 join | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 donned | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 donned | aux |
| 5 | donned | don | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 boy | acl:relcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gear | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gear | compound |
| 8 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 donned | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 boy | punct |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 join | aux |
| 11 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 join | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 join | obl |
| 17 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 place | acl |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 arranged | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ranged | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ranged | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 ranged | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ranged | nsubj |
| 24 | ranged | range | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 join | conj |
| 25 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 24 ranged | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 direct | mark |
| 27 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 direct | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 direct | aux |
| 29 | direct | direct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ranged | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 join | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | don | gerund · perfect | the boy not said here | boy's hunting gear | vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | join | would | the boy | the king | a place | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | |||
| 3 | arrange | participle | a place not said here | between affairs = affair | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between they=Destination | ||||
| 4 | range | past | affairs = affair | then | abroad property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | direct | might | chance | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=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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