Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 25

Every year before that time three crops of corn used to be lifted off the land, but during Art’s absence there was no corn in Ireland and there was no milk.

Who acts: year, Art · What happens: use, lift off, be, absent · To what, where: corn, land, milk

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: who acts (year, Art), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 milk	nsubj
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 year	nmod
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 crops	nummod
7	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 time	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 corn	case
9	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crops	nmod
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 corn	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	13 lifted	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 lifted	aux:pass
13	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 used	xcomp
14	off	off	ADP	_	16 land	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 land	det
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lifted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 was	cc
19	during	during	ADP	_	22 absence	case
20	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 absence	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Art	case
22	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 was	obl
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 milk	cop
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 corn	det
26	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 milk	nsubj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Ireland	case
28	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 corn	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 was	cc
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 was	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 milk	cop
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 milk	det
33	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 milk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	participle		corn not said here	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	lift off	to-infinitive · passive		the land	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: land=Theme
3	is a	past	every year before that time three crops of corn	no milk	tree rules
4	absent		Art		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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