Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 5

So, whenever a story-teller chanced in that neighbourhood he was directed to the monastery, and there he received a welcome and his fill of all that is good for man.

Who acts: story teller, neighbourhood, all · What happens: chance, direct, receive, be · To what, where: neighbourhood, welcome, fill

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 (story teller, neighbourhood, all), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 chanced	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chanced	punct
3	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 chanced	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 teller	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teller	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 story	punct
7	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chanced	nsubj
8	chanced	chance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 neighbourhood	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 neighbourhood	det
11	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chanced	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 directed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 directed	aux:pass
14	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 neighbourhood	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 monastery	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monastery	det
17	monastery	monastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 directed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 received	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 received	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 received	expl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 received	nsubj
22	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chanced	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 welcome	det
24	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 received	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fill	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fill	nmod:poss
27	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 welcome	conj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 good	mark
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 good	nsubj
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 good	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 good	cop
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fill	acl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 man	case
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 good	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chance	participle	a story teller		that neighbourhood	whenever property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in neighbourhood=Location
2	direct	past · passive		neighbourhood		to the monastery	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	receive	past	neighbourhood	a welcome and neighbourhood's fill	there		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent welcome=Theme
4	is	present	all	neighbourhood's fill not said here		for man; good property	tree rules

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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