Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 11

She went to Leinster with the king of that country, and when she had gone Mongan fell grievously sick, so that it did not seem he could ever recover again; and he began to waste and wither, and he began to look like a skeleton, and a bony structure, and a misery.

Who acts: Mongan, it, Laca · What happens: go, fall, not seem, recover, begin, waste · To what, where: Leinster

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, it, Laca), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Leinster	case
4	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 king	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gone	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 gone	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	parataxis
17	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	ccomp
19	grievously	grievously	ADV	_	20 sick	advmod
20	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fell	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seem	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	27 seem	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 seem	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seem	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seem	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 seem	advmod
27	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 gone	conj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 recover	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 recover	aux
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 recover	advmod
31	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seem	xcomp
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 recover	advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 began	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 began	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 began	nsubj
36	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 waste	mark
38	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 began	xcomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 wither	cc
40	wither	wither	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 waste	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 began	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 began	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 began	nsubj
44	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 began	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 look	mark
46	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 began	xcomp
47	like	like	ADP	_	49 skeleton	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 skeleton	det
49	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 look	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 structure	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 structure	cc
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 structure	det
53	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 structure	amod
54	structure	structure	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 began	parataxis
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 misery	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 misery	cc
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 misery	det
58	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 structure	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Mongan	Leinster		with the king of that country	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to leinster=Initial_Location
2	go	past · perfect	Mongan				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fall	past	Mongan			sick property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not seem	past · do-support	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	recover	could	Laca		ever; again		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	begin	past	Laca				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	waste	to-infinitive	Laca not said here				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	wither	infinitive	Laca not said here				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	begin	past	Laca				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	look	to-infinitive	Laca not said here			like a skeleton	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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