Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 33
“A prince’s duty could be set him, and in such an absence he would improve his knowledge both of Ireland and of men.
Who acts: king · What happens: set, improve · To what, where: duty, knowledge, absence
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 (king), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 duty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 prince | case |
| 5 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 set | aux:pass |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 improve | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 improve | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 absence | case |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 absence | det:predet |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 absence | det |
| 15 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 improve | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 improve | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 improve | aux |
| 18 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 set | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 20 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 improve | obj |
| 21 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 Ireland | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Ireland | case |
| 23 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 improve | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 men | cc |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 men | case |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Ireland | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set in a quote | could · passive | a prince's duty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination | |||||
| 2 | improve in a quote | would | king | king's knowledge | such absence | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
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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