Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 53

The son of Lir turned then and went away in the direction of Ireland to take up his one-day rights, and Fiachna continued his battle with the Lochlannachs.

Who acts: son, Fiachna · What happens: turn, go away, take up, continue, battle · To what, where: direction, day rights, battle

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Fiachna), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Lir	case
4	Lir	Lir	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 son	nmod
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 turned	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 direction	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 direction	det
12	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Ireland	case
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 direction	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 take	mark
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 take	compound:prt
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rights	nmod:poss
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 day	nummod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rights	compound
22	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 take	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 continued	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 continued	cc
25	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 continued	nsubj
26	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 battle	nmod:poss
28	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 continued	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 Lochlannachs	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Lochlannachs	det
31	Lochlannachs	Lochlannachs	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 battle	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the son of Lir			then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	go away	past	the son of Lir not said here		the direction of Ireland		away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location
3	take up	to-infinitive	the son of Lir not said here	son's day rights				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Theme
4	continue	past	Fiachna	son's battle			with the Lochlannachs	tree rules
5	battle		son				with the Lochlannachs	nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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