Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 24
But during that period things did not go well with the king nor with Ireland.
What happens: not go
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 go | cc |
| 2 | during | during | ADP | _ | 5 things | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 things | nsubj |
| 4 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 things | compound |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | obl |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 Ireland | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Ireland | case |
| 15 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 king | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · do-support | during period things | with the king nor Ireland; well property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with king=Beneficiary |
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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