Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 23
The harridan did as she had promised, and in a short time Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and Cona’n were released, and after that all the Fianna were released.
Who acts: harridan, stroke · What happens: do, promise, release · To what, where: Fionn, that
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harridan, stroke), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 harridan | det |
| 2 | harridan | harridan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 promised | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 promised | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 promised | aux |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 released | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 released | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 released | obl |
| 14 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 released | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Oisi’n | cc |
| 16 | Oisi’n | Oisi'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fionn | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Oscar | cc |
| 18 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fionn | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Cona’n | cc |
| 20 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fionn | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 released | aux:pass |
| 22 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 released | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 released | cc |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 that | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 released | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 Fianna | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Fianna | det |
| 29 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 that | nmod |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 released | aux:pass |
| 31 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 released | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the harridan | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | stroke | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | release | past · passive | Fionn and Oisi’n and Oscar and Cona’n | time | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | ||||
| 4 | release | past · passive | that | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source |
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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