Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 28
Had it been possible he would have tethered the birds to their own green branches on that day, and forbidden the clouds to pack the upper world with stir and colour.
What happens: tether, forbid, pack · To what, where: king, clouds, upper world
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: 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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tethered | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Had | obj |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 tethered | aux:pass |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 been | xcomp |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tethered | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tethered | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tethered | aux |
| 8 | tethered | tether | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 birds | det |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tethered | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 branches | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 branches | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 branches | amod |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 branches | amod |
| 15 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tethered | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 branches | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forbidden | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 forbidden | cc |
| 21 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tethered | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 clouds | det |
| 23 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 forbidden | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 pack | mark |
| 25 | pack | pack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 forbidden | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 world | det |
| 27 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 world | amod |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pack | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 stir | case |
| 30 | stir | stir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pack | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 colour | cc |
| 32 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stir | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tethered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tether | would · past · perfect · passive | king | to beings's own green branches on that day | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient bird=Result | ||||
| 2 | forbid | participle | the clouds | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pack | to-infinitive | the upper world | with stir and colour | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent world=Destination with stir=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/41/28/