Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 1
AT the end of a fortnight Fionn and Goll and the chief men of the Fianna attended at Tara.
What happens: attend
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | AT | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attended | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Fionn | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fortnight | det |
| 6 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Fionn | compound |
| 7 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Goll | cc |
| 9 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fionn | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 men | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Fionn | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Fianna | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fianna | det |
| 16 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 men | nmod |
| 17 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Tara | case |
| 19 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 attended | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 attended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | past | at the end of fortnight Fionn and Goll and the chief men of the Fianna | at Tara | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at end=Theme |
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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