Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 9

After no great delay Crimthann mac Ae agreed and arranged that he and Becfola should fly from Tara, and it was part of their understanding that they should live happily ever after.

Who acts: Crimthann mac, mac, terror, Becfola · What happens: agree, arrange, fly, be, live, understand · To what, where: Tara, part, understanding

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 (Crimthann mac, mac, terror, Becfola), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 delay	case
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 delay	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 delay	amod
4	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 agreed	obl
5	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mac	compound
6	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 agreed	nsubj
7	Ae	Ae	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mac	flat
8	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 arranged	cc
10	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 agreed	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 fly	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fly	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Becfola	cc
14	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 he	conj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fly	aux
16	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 arranged	advcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 Tara	case
18	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 fly	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 part	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 part	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 part	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 part	cop
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 agreed	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 understanding	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 understanding	nmod:poss
26	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 part	nmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 live	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 live	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 live	aux
30	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 understanding	acl
31	happily	happily	ADV	_	30 live	advmod
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 after	advmod
33	after	after	ADV	_	30 live	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	Crimthann mac			after no great delay		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	arrange	past	Crimthann mac not said here					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fly	should	mac		Tara			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tara=Trajectory
4	is a	past	terror	part			of Becfola's understanding	tree rules
5	live	should	Becfola	Becfola's understanding not said here			after, happily property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme understanding=Location
6	understand		Becfola					nom understanding «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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