Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 12

Now and again, in a lull of the discussion, a champion would look and remark on the hurrying vessel; and it may have been during one of these moments that the adventure happened to Fionn and the Fianna.

Who acts: champion, moments · What happens: look, remark, hurry, be, happen · To what, where: hurrying vessel, Fionn

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 (champion, moments), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 look	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 again	cc
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Now	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 lull	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lull	det
7	lull	lull	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 discussion	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 discussion	det
10	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lull	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lull	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 champion	det
13	champion	champion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 look	aux
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 remark	cc
17	remark	remark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 look	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 vessel	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 vessel	det
20	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 vessel	amod
21	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remark	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 one	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 one	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 one	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 one	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 one	cop
28	during	during	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 look	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 moments	case
31	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 moments	det
32	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 happened	nsubj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 adventure	det
35	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 happened	nsubj
36	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 moments	acl:relcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 Fionn	case
38	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 happened	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 Fianna	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Fianna	det
41	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Fionn	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	a champion			now	in a lull of the discussion	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in lull=Theme
2	remark speech: assert	infinitive	a champion not said here		the hurrying vessel			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hurry	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	may · perfect	champion			during one; moment		tree rules
5	happen	past	this moments	Fionn and the Fianna				vn occur-48.3-1 «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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