Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 3

Everything was about him as before, and he did not know that he had gone into Faery.

Who acts: Everything, Fionn · What happens: be about, not know, go · To what, where: Fionn, Faery · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, Fionn), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 him	advmod
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	obl
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 before	case
6	before	before	ADV	_	2 was	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 know	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 gone	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 know	ccomp
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 Faery	case
18	Faery	faery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be about	past	Everything	Fionn		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not know	past · do-support	Fionn			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past · perfect	Fionn		Faery	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into faery=Initial_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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