Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 23
It happened that Fionn mac Uail had summoned the gentlemen of the Fianna and their wives to a banquet.
Who acts: It, Fionn mac · What happens: happen, summon · To what, where: gentlemen
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, Fionn mac), 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 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 summoned | mark |
| 4 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mac | compound |
| 5 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 summoned | nsubj |
| 6 | Uail | Uail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mac | flat |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 summoned | aux |
| 8 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gentlemen | det |
| 10 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 summoned | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Fianna | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fianna | det |
| 13 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gentlemen | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wives | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wives | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Fianna | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 banquet | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 banquet | det |
| 19 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 summoned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | summon | past · perfect | Fionn mac | the gentlemen of the Fianna and gentlemen's wives | to a banquet | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gentleman=Recipient |
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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