Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 30

Then the young heroes grew merry and audacious, the ladies became gentle and kind, and the poets became wonders of knowledge and prophecy.

Who acts: young heroes, ladies, poets · What happens: grow, become, wonder · To what, where: wonders, knowledge

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 (young heroes, ladies, poets), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 grew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heroes	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heroes	amod
4	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 audacious	cc
8	audacious	audacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 merry	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ladies	det
11	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
13	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 became	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kind	cc
15	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gentle	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 became	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 became	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 poets	det
19	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 became	nsubj
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
21	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 became	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 knowledge	case
23	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wonders	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 prophecy	cc
25	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knowledge	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the young heroes		then	merry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	the ladies			gentle property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	become	past	the poets	wonders of knowledge and prophecy			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	wonder			knowledge and prophecy			nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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