Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 47
They went on then to meet the King of Leinster.
Who acts: river · What happens: go on, meet · To what, where: King
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 (river), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 meet | mark |
| 6 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 meet | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Leinster | case |
| 10 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | river | then | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | river not said here | the King of Leinster | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent |
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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