Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 1
One day something happened to Fionn, the son of Uail; that is, he departed from the world of men, and was set wandering in great distress of mind through Faery.
Who acts: something, that · What happens: happen, be, set, wonder, distress · To what, where: Fionn, world, great distress, mind
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 (something, that), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Fionn | case |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fionn | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Uail | case |
| 11 | Uail | Uail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 departed | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 departed | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 departed | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 departed | nsubj |
| 17 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 departed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 world | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 set | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 set | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 set | aux:pass |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 departed | conj |
| 27 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 set | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 distress | case |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 distress | amod |
| 30 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wandering | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 mind | case |
| 32 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 distress | nmod |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 Faery | case |
| 34 | Faery | faery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wandering | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | something | Fionn | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | that | the world of men | depart property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | set | past · passive | that not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | that not said here | great distress of mind | through Faery | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | distress | mind | nom distress «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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