Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 18
“There was a Cairide’ of my nation with Mongan when he went into Faery.
Who acts: nation · What happens: be, go · To what, where: Faery
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nation), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | parataxis |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Cairide | det |
| 5 | Cairide | Cairide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nation | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 5 Cairide | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 nation | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nation | nmod:poss |
| 9 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Mongan | case |
| 11 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nation | nmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 went | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 Faery | case |
| 16 | Faery | faery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | past | a Cairide's nation with Mongan | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | nation | Faery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into faery=Initial_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.
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