Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 16

But soon there came dismay and sorrow in the land, for when the little Mongan was three days old his real father, Mananna’n the son of Lir, appeared in the middle of the palace.

Who acts: little Mongan · What happens: come, be, appear · To what, where: dismay, land, middle

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Mongan), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 came	expl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sorrow	cc
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dismay	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 old	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	20 old	case
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 old	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Mongan	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Mongan	amod
16	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 old	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 old	cop
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 days	nummod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 old	obl:unmarked
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 father	amod
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 old	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Mananna’n	punct
25	Mananna’n	Mananna'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 father	appos
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 son	det
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 father	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Lir	case
29	Lir	Lir	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 appeared	punct
31	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 father	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 middle	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 middle	det
34	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 appeared	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 palace	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 palace	det
37	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 middle	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		dismay and sorrow	the land; there		soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dismay=Theme
2	is	past	the little Mongan			day	old property	tree rules
3	appear	past	the little Mongan not said here		the middle of the palace			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

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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