Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 15
Therefore none of the dangers encountered by Art were real, but were magical chimeras conjured against him by the great witch.
Who acts: none, magical chimeras · What happens: encounter, be
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, magical chimeras), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 encountered | advmod |
| 2 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 encountered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dangers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dangers | det |
| 5 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 none | nmod |
| 6 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Art | case |
| 8 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 encountered | obl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 encountered | conj |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 were | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 conjured | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 conjured | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 conjured | cop |
| 14 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 chimeras | amod |
| 15 | chimeras | chimera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 conjured | nsubj |
| 16 | conjured | conjure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 encountered | conj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 conjured | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 witch | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 witch | amod |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 conjured | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 encountered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encounter | past | none | by Art; therefore property | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | be | past | none not said here | real property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | magical chimeras | against Art; by the great witch; conjure property | tree rules |
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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