Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 10

Fiachna had to do as she demanded, and, although it was with a heavy heart, he set out in three days’ time for Lochlann, and he brought with him ten battalions.

Who acts: Fiachna, war, king · What happens: have, do, demand, be, set out, bring · To what, where: ten battalions

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiachna, war, king), 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	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	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 had	xcomp
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 demanded	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 demanded	nsubj
7	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 set	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 set	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	although	although	SCONJ	_	17 heart	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heart	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heart	cop
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 heart	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 heart	det
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 heart	amod
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heart	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 set	nsubj
20	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 set	compound:prt
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 time	case
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 days	nummod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 time	nmod:poss
25	’	's	PART	_	24 days	case
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 Lochlann	case
28	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 time	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 brought	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 brought	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 brought	nsubj
32	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 brought	obl
35	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 battalions	nummod
36	battalions	battalion	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 brought	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Fiachna				tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Fiachna not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	demand speech: request	past	Fiachna				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	war			with a heavy heart	tree rules
5	set out	past	king		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bring	past	king	ten battalions		with Lochlann	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent battalion=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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