Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 7
He had many presents to make, and he had not as much gold and silver and cattle as was proper for a king.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: have, make, be · To what, where: many presents, much gold
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 presents | amod |
| 4 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 much | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gold | amod |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 silver | cc |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gold | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cattle | cc |
| 18 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gold | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 king | case |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 king | cop |
| 21 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 24 king | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 king | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mongan | many presents | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Mongan not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Mongan | much gold and silver and cattle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | as a king; properly property | tree rules |
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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