Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 9
“How does it happen that not one Fenian of the Fianna is at the side of his captain?”
Who acts: it, Fenian · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: one side
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 (it, Fenian), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 happen | advmod |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 side | mark |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 one | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 side | nummod |
| 9 | Fenian | Fenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Fianna | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fianna | det |
| 12 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fenian | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 side | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 side | det |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happen | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 captain | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 captain | nmod:poss |
| 19 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | present · do-support | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Fenian of the Fianna | the one side | of Fionn's captain | tree rules |
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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