Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 8
One day a story-teller came to the monastery, and, like all the others, he was heartily welcomed and given a great deal more than his need.
Who acts: story teller, neighbourhood · What happens: come, welcome, give, need · To what, where: monastery, neighbourhood, great deal
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), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 teller | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teller | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 6 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 monastery | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monastery | det |
| 10 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 welcomed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 welcomed | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 others | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 others | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 others | det |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 welcomed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 others | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 21 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 22 welcomed | advmod |
| 22 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 came | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 given | cc |
| 24 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 welcomed | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 deal | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 deal | amod |
| 27 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 given | obj |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 given | advmod |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 need | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 need | nmod:poss |
| 31 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 more | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a story teller | the monastery | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to monastery=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | welcome | past · passive | neighbourhood | like all others; heartily property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | a great deal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme | |||||
| 4 | need | neighbourhood | nom need «state transitive»: poss=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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