Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 21
This Cael will end the course by the time your Caelte begins to think of starting.”
Who acts: Cael, Caelte · What happens: end, begin, think, start · To what, where: course, time
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael, Caelte), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Cael | det |
| 2 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | aux |
| 4 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 course | det |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | obl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Caelte | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 begins | nsubj |
| 12 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 begins | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 starting | mark |
| 16 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 think | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | future | this Cael | the course | time | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector course=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | begin | present | your Caelte | the time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | your Caelte not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | start | gerund | your Caelte not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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