Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 4
It then happened that Eolgarg Mor fell sick and the doctors could not cure him.
Who acts: It, Eolgarg, doctors · What happens: happen, fall, not cure · To what, where: Eolgarg
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 (It, Eolgarg, doctors), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 fell | mark |
| 5 | Eolgarg | Eolgarg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | Mor | Mor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Eolgarg | flat |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 8 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fell | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cure | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doctors | det |
| 11 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cure | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cure | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 cure | advmod |
| 14 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fell | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cure | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Eolgarg | sick property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not cure | could | the doctors | Eolgarg | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source |
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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