Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 19
When the machinery of anything is explained to us we grow interested, and Crimthann became, by instruction, as astonished as the king was.
Who acts: we, Crimthann, king · What happens: explain, grow, become, be · To what, where: machinery, us, instruction
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 (we, Crimthann, king), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 explained | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 machinery | det |
| 3 | machinery | machinery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 explained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 anything | case |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 machinery | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 explained | aux:pass |
| 7 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 grow | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 explained | obl |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 grow | nsubj |
| 11 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grow | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 became | cc |
| 15 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grow | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 instruction | punct |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 instruction | case |
| 19 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 astonished | punct |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 astonished | advmod |
| 22 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 instruction | amod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 was | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 astonished | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present · passive | the machinery of anything | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to we=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | we | interested property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Crimthann | instruction | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be | past | the king | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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