Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 1

Now the king of the Shi’ of Cesh Corran, Conaran, son of Imidel, was also watching the hunt, but Fionn did not see him, for we cannot see the people of Faery until we enter their realm, and Fionn was not thinking of Faery at that moment.

Who acts: king, Fionn, we · What happens: watch, not see, enter, not think · To what, where: hunt, king, people, realm

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 (king, Fionn, we), 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	3 king	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 watching	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 ’	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ’	det
6	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ’	compound
7	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Cesh	case
9	Cesh	Cesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ’	nmod
10	Corran	Corran	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Cesh	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Conaran	punct
12	Conaran	Conaran	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Cesh	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 son	punct
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ’	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Imidel	case
16	Imidel	Imidel	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 son	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 king	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 watching	aux
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 watching	advmod
20	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hunt	det
22	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 watching	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 see	cc
25	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 see	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 see	advmod
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 watching	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 see	mark
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 see	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 see	advmod
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 see	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 people	det
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 see	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Faery	case
39	Faery	faery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 people	nmod
40	until	until	SCONJ	_	42 enter	mark
41	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 enter	nsubj
42	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 see	advcl
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 realm	nmod:poss
44	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 enter	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 thinking	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 thinking	cc
47	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 thinking	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 thinking	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 thinking	advmod
50	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 watching	conj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 Faery	case
52	Faery	faery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 thinking	obl
53	at	at	ADP	_	55 moment	case
54	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 moment	det
55	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 thinking	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 watching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · progressive	the king of the Shi ’ of Cesh and Conaran and son of Imidel	the hunt			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Theme
2	not see	past · do-support	Fionn	king			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	not see	can	we	the people of Faery			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
4	enter	present	we	people's realm			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme realm=Destination
5	not think speech: other	past · progressive	Fionn		moment	of Faery	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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