Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 16

He grew more and more despondent, and less and less fitted to cope with affairs of state, and one day he instructed his son Art to take the rule during his absence, and he set out for Ben Edair.

Who acts: Ireland · What happens: grow, fit, cope, instruct, take, set out · To what, where: son, rule · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ireland), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grew	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 despondent	cc
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 despondent	advmod
6	despondent	despondent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 more	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fitted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fitted	cc
9	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 fitted	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fitted	cc
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 fitted	advmod
12	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grew	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cope	mark
14	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fitted	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 affairs	case
16	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cope	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 state	case
18	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 affairs	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 instructed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 instructed	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 day	nummod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 instructed	obl:unmarked
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 instructed	nsubj
24	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 son	nmod:poss
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 instructed	obj
27	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 son	appos
28	to	to	PART	_	29 take	mark
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 instructed	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rule	det
31	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obj
32	during	during	ADP	_	34 absence	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 absence	nmod:poss
34	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 set	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 set	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 set	nsubj
38	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 set	compound:prt
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 Ben	case
41	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 set	obl
42	Edair	Edair	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Ben	flat
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Ireland				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fit	participle				less property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	cope	to-infinitive				with affairs of state	vn cope-83-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with affair=Theme
4	instruct speech: other	past	Ireland	Ireland's son	day		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take	to-infinitive		the rule	during Ireland's absence		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
6	set out	past	Ireland			for Ben	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	absent		Ireland				nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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