Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 3
Fionn stood up, but the moment he did so Goll mac Morna arose also.
Who acts: Fionn, moment, Goll mac · What happens: stand up, do, arise
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: who acts (Fionn, moment, Goll 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 stood | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 did | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 arose | advmod |
| 11 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mac | compound |
| 12 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 arose | nsubj |
| 13 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mac | flat |
| 14 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | advcl |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 arose | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | Fionn | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the moment | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | arise | past | Goll mac | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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