Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5
She told Conn that the fame of his son Art had reached even the Many-Coloured Land, and that she had fallen in love with the boy.
Who acts: lady · What happens: tell, reach, fall · To what, where: Conn, fame, love · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lady), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 reached | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fame | det |
| 6 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 son | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fame | nmod |
| 10 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 reached | aux |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | ccomp |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 Land | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Land | det |
| 15 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Coloured | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Many | punct |
| 17 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Land | amod |
| 18 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fallen | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fallen | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 fallen | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fallen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fallen | aux |
| 24 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fallen | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 boy | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boy | det |
| 29 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fallen | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | lady | Conn | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent conn=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | reach | past · perfect · passive | the fame of Conn's son | the Coloured Land obl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | lady | love | with the boy | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
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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