Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 11

They found lots of cows which were nearly like what they wanted, but it was only by chance they came on the cow which would do the work, and that beast belonged to the most notorious and malicious and cantankerous female in Lochlann, the Black Hag.

Who acts: directions, cows, medicine, cow, beast · What happens: find, be, want, come, do, belong · To what, where: lots, chance, work

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (directions, cows, medicine, cow), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cows	case
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	conj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 what	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 what	cop
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	10 what	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cows	advcl:relcl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 chance	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 chance	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 chance	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 chance	cop
17	only	only	ADV	_	19 chance	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 chance	case
19	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 chance	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 cow	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cow	det
24	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 do	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 cow	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 work	det
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 belonged	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 belonged	cc
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 beast	det
33	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 belonged	nsubj
34	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 notorious	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 notorious	det
37	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	38 notorious	advmod
38	notorious	notorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 belonged	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 malicious	cc
40	malicious	malicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 notorious	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 female	cc
42	cantankerous	cantankerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 female	amod
43	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 notorious	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 Lochlann	case
45	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 female	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Hag	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Hag	det
48	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Hag	compound
49	Hag	Hag	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Lochlann	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	directions = direction	lots and cows		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
2	is	past	cows		like lots and cows; nearly property	tree rules
3	want	past	directions = direction			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	past	medicine		by chance	tree rules
5	come	past	directions = direction	chance not said here	on the cow	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chance=Theme
6	do	would	the cow	the work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
7	belong	past	that beast		to the notorious	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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