Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 42
When the king had gone by mac an Da’v groaned a deep and dejected groan.
Who acts: king, Da’v · What happens: go, groan, deject · To what, where: deep groan
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Da’v), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 groaned | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 mac | case |
| 7 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Da’v | det |
| 9 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 groaned | nsubj |
| 10 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 groan | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 groan | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dejected | cc |
| 14 | dejected | deject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 deep | conj |
| 15 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 groaned | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the king | by mac | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mac=Location | ||||
| 2 | groan | past | a Da’v | a deep groan | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent groan=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deject | participle | a Da’v not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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