Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 19
By that time some of the Fianna had returned to the mound to see why Bran and Sceo’lan were barking so outrageously.
Who acts: Fianna, Bran · What happens: return, see, bark · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fianna, Bran), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 Fianna | det |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Fianna | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fianna | det |
| 7 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 returned | aux |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 mound | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mound | det |
| 12 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 returned | advcl |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 barking | advmod |
| 16 | Bran | Bran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 barking | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Sceo’lan | cc |
| 18 | Sceo’lan | Sceo'lan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Bran | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 barking | aux |
| 20 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 see | ccomp |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 outrageously | advmod |
| 22 | outrageously | outrageously | ADV | _ | 20 barking | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · perfect | some Fianna | time | to the mound result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mound=Result | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | some Fianna not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | bark | past · progressive | Bran and Sceo’lan | outrageously property | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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