Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 24
Everybody came, for a banquet given by Fionn was not a thing to be missed.
Who acts: Everybody, Fionn · What happens: come, give, not be, miss · To what, where: banquet
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 (Everybody, Fionn), 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 banquet | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 banquet | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 banquet | det |
| 6 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 banquet | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 thing | case |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thing | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 thing | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 missed | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 missed | aux:pass |
| 16 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 thing | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Everybody | for a banquet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | a banquet not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | Fionn | by a thing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | miss | to-infinitive · passive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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/pg2892/45/24/