Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 45

He did not tarry in the Many-Coloured Land, for he had nothing further to seek there.

Who acts: husband · What happens: have, seek · To what, where: nothing

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 (husband), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tarry	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tarry	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tarry	advmod
4	tarry	tarry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	10 Land	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Land	det
7	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Coloured	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Many	punct
9	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Land	amod
10	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tarry	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 had	case
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tarry	parataxis
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 had	obj
16	further	further	ADV	_	15 nothing	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 seek	mark
18	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nothing	acl
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 seek	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tarry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	husband	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	seek	to-infinitive	husband not said here	nothing not said here		there			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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