Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 36
As the Fianna turned homewards Fionn spoke to his great champion and enemy.
Who acts: Fianna, Fionn · What happens: turn, speak · To what, where: homewards · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fianna, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 turned | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fianna | det |
| 3 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spoke | advcl |
| 5 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turned | obj |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 champion | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 champion | nmod:poss |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 champion | amod |
| 11 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 enemy | cc |
| 13 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 champion | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the Fianna | homewards | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Fionn | to Fionn's great champion and enemy | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to champion=Co-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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