Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 5
It happened in the days when Dermod, son of the famous Ae of Slane, was monarch of all Ireland.
Who acts: It · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: Dermod monarch
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 days | det |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 monarch | advmod |
| 7 | Dermod | Dermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 monarch | compound |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Dermod | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ae | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ae | det |
| 12 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Ae | amod |
| 13 | Ae | Ae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Slane | case |
| 15 | Slane | Slane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ae | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Dermod | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 monarch | cop |
| 18 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Ireland | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 Ireland | det |
| 21 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 monarch | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Dermod monarch | of all Ireland | tree rules |
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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