Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 4
It took him to keep the Fianna safe, but it took all the Fianna to keep their captain out of danger.
Who acts: It · What happens: take, keep · To what, where: Fionn, Fianna, captain, danger
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fianna | det |
| 7 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 Fianna | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fianna | det |
| 15 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 captain | nmod:poss |
| 19 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 danger | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 danger | case |
| 22 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | Fionn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | the Fianna | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fianna=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | it | all Fianna | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fianna=Destination | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | abysses's captain | danger | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent captain=Theme out danger=Location |
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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