Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 27

During six days of the week all that could happen might happen, so far as Dermod was concerned, but on the seventh day nothing should happen at all if the High King could restrain it.

Who acts: six days, Dermod, nothing, High King · What happens: happen, be, restrain · To what, where: all, commission

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 (six days, Dermod, nothing, High 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 happen	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 days	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 happen	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 happen	aux
10	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 days	acl:relcl
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 happen	aux
12	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 far	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 far	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 happen	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 concerned	mark
17	Dermod	Dermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 concerned	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 concerned	cop
19	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 far	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 happen	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 happen	cc
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 day	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
24	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 day	amod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 happen	obl
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 happen	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 happen	aux
28	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 happen	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 happen	obl
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 restrain	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 King	det
33	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 King	amod
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 restrain	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 restrain	aux
36	restrain	restrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 happen	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 restrain	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 happen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could	six days of the week					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	might	six days of the week				far property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Dermod				concerned property	tree rules
4	happen	should	nothing		all	day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location
5	restrain a condition, not said to happen	could	the High King	commission				vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Eventuality

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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