Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 1
One day Mongan and Duv Laca were playing chess in their palace.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: play · To what, where: chess, palace
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Duv | cc |
| 5 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mongan | conj |
| 6 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Duv | flat |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 playing | aux |
| 8 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 palace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 playing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | Mongan and Duv | chess | Mongan's palace | day | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=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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