Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 38

It was well for the son of the Ard-Ri’ that he had been beloved by the poets and magicians of his land, and that they had taught him all that was known of shape-changing and words of power.

Who acts: effect, son, poets · What happens: be, ', belov, teach, know, change · To what, where: son, magicians, that, words, power

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 (effect, son, poets), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 son	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 son	cop
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 son	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 son	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ’	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 Ri	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ri	det
9	Ard	Ard	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ri	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Ard	punct
11	Ri	Ri	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod
12	’	'	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 beloved	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beloved	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 beloved	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 beloved	aux:pass
17	beloved	belov	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ’	ccomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 poets	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 poets	det
20	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 beloved	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 magicians	cc
22	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 poets	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 land	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 land	nmod:poss
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 magicians	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 taught	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 taught	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 taught	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 taught	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 taught	aux
31	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ’	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 taught	obj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 known	det:predet
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 known	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 known	aux:pass
36	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 taught	conj
37	of	of	SCONJ	_	40 changing	mark
38	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 changing	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 shape	punct
40	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 known	advcl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 words	cc
42	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 changing	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 power	case
44	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 words	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ’	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	effect			for the son; of the Ard Ri; well property	tree rules
2	'	present	the son				tree rules
3	belov	past · perfect · passive	the poets and magicians of son's land	son			tree rules
4	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		magicians = magician	son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
5	know	past · passive		that			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
6	change	gerund		words of power			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
7	word			power			nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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