Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 39

When he had finished Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and mac Lugac of the Terrible Hand gave him rare and costly presents, so that every person wondered at their munificence, and even the poet, accustomed to the liberality of kings and princes, was astonished at his gifts.

Who acts: Fergus, Fionn, person · What happens: finish, give, wonder, accustom, be, gift · To what, where: rare presents, Fergus, poet, munificence, gifts

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 (Fergus, Fionn, person), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 gave	advcl
5	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 gave	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Oisi’n	cc
7	Oisi’n	Oisi'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fionn	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Oscar	cc
9	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fionn	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Lugac	cc
11	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lugac	compound
12	Lugac	Lugac	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fionn	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 Hand	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Hand	det
15	Terrible	Terrible	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Hand	compound
16	Hand	Hand	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lugac	nmod
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 presents	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 costly	cc
21	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rare	conj
22	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gave	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wondered	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 wondered	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 person	det
27	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wondered	nsubj
28	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gave	parataxis
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 munificence	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 munificence	nmod:poss
31	munificence	munificence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wondered	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 poet	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 poet	cc
34	even	even	ADV	_	36 poet	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 poet	det
36	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wondered	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 accustomed	punct
38	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 poet	acl
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 liberality	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 liberality	det
41	liberality	liberality	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 accustomed	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 kings	case
43	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 liberality	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 princes	cc
45	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 kings	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 astonished	punct
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 astonished	cop
48	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wondered	conj
49	at	at	ADP	_	51 gifts	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 gifts	nmod:poss
51	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 astonished	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Fergus					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	give	past	Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and mac Lugac of the Terrible Hand	rare presents	Fergus			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient present=Theme
3	wonder speech: ask	past	every person	the poet		presents's munificence		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	accustom	participle		the poet not said here			to the liberality of kings and princes	tree rules
5	is	past	every person not said here			Fergus's gifts	astonished property	tree rules
6	gift		Fergus					nom gift «possession 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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