Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 25
They brought him and his chief men into the palace, and water was brought for their baths, and rooms were appointed for them, and everything was done that should be done for guests.
Who acts: horses · What happens: bring, appoint, do · To what, where: Mongan, palace, water, rooms, everything, that
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 men | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | compound |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 him | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 brought | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 baths | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 baths | nmod:poss |
| 18 | baths | bath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brought | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 appointed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 appointed | cc |
| 21 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 appointed | aux:pass |
| 23 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 brought | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 appointed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 done | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 done | cc |
| 28 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 done | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux:pass |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 appointed | conj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 done | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 done | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 done | aux:pass |
| 34 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 done | parataxis |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 guests | case |
| 36 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 done | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | horses = horse | Mongan | the palace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into palace=Destination | |||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | water | for horses's baths | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appoint | past · passive | rooms | for horses = horse | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past · passive | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | do | should · passive | that | for guests | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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