Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 35
Up to this time the trials through which he had passed had seemed so great that they could not easily be added to.
Who acts: King, trials · What happens: pass, have, seem, not add · To what, where: trials
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 (King, trials), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 13 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seemed | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trials | det |
| 6 | trials | trial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 passed | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | aux |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 trials | acl:relcl |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trials | acl:relcl |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 great | advmod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 added | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 added | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 added | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 added | advmod |
| 20 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 22 added | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 added | aux:pass |
| 22 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 great | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 added | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | King | the trials | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the trials not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | the trials | time | great property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | not add speech: assert | could · passive | trials = trial | easily property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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