Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 15
He agreed to do so, and they drove the beast away.
Who acts: Fiachna, things · What happens: agree, do, drive away · To what, where: beast
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 (Fiachna, things), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | xcomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drove | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drove | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drove | nsubj |
| 9 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beast | det |
| 11 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drove | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 drove | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Fiachna | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fiachna not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drive away | past | things = thing | the beast | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beast=Trajectory |
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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