Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 2
Time passed, and the king’s happiness was as great as his expectation of it had promised.
Who acts: happiness, expectation, king · What happens: pass, be, promise, expect · To what, where: happiness
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happiness, expectation, 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 great | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 great | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 great | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 great | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 great | advmod |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 passed | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 promised | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 expectation | nmod:poss |
| 14 | expectation | expectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 promised | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 expectation | nmod |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 promised | aux |
| 18 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 great | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the king's happiness | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | king's expectation of happiness | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | expect | king | happiness | nom expectation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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