Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 22
Mongan agreed to play a trick on the priests.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: agree, play · To what, where: trick, priests
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. 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 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 play | mark |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trick | det |
| 6 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 priests | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 priests | det |
| 9 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Mongan | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mongan not said here | a trick | the priests | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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