Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 5
He was not spared one of the terrors which had been foretold.
What happens: not spare, foretell · To what, where: head, terrors
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: 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 spared | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spared | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 spared | advmod |
| 4 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 spared | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 terrors | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 terrors | det |
| 8 | terrors | terror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 foretold | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 foretold | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 foretold | aux:pass |
| 12 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 terrors | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spare | past · passive | head | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient one=Asset | |||||
| 2 | foretell | past · perfect · passive | the terrors | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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