Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 59
She was forbidden entry to the Shi’ by Angus Og, and she could not remain in Ireland.
Who acts: Angus, Tara · What happens: forbid, not remain · To what, where: Tara, Ireland
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 (Angus, Tara), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forbidden | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 3 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forbidden | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Shi | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Shi | det |
| 7 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forbidden | obl |
| 8 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 7 Shi | case |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Angus | case |
| 10 | Angus | Angus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forbidden | obl:agent |
| 11 | Og | Og | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Angus | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 remain | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 remain | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 remain | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 remain | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 remain | advmod |
| 17 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forbidden | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Ireland | case |
| 19 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 remain | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | past · passive | Angus | Tara | to the Shi | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | not remain | could | Tara | Ireland | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ireland=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/71/59/