Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 9

Art, and Fionn the son of Uail, and the princes of the land were outraged at the idea that one who had been placed under their protection should be hurt by any hand.

Who acts: hand, parties · What happens: outrage, place, hurt, protect · To what, where: princes, idea, protection, one

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, parties), 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	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 son	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Fionn	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Fionn	cc
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Art	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Uail	case
8	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 outraged	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 outraged	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princes	det
12	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 outraged	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 princes	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 outraged	aux:pass
17	outraged	outrage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 son	acl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 idea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 idea	det
20	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 outraged	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 hurt	mark
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hurt	nsubj:pass
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 placed	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 placed	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 placed	aux:pass
26	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 one	acl:relcl
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 protection	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 protection	nmod:poss
29	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 placed	obl
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hurt	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 hurt	aux:pass
32	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 idea	acl
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 hand	case
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 hand	det
35	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hurt	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	outrage	past · passive		the princes of the land	the idea	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	place	past · perfect · passive			parties's protection	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under protection=Destination
3	hurt	should · passive	any hand	one		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient
4	protect		parties = party			nom protection «act 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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