Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 12
But in a while they came to the fortress, and they got into it without any trouble, for Kevin Cochlach, the king’s charioteer, brought them in.
Who acts: people · What happens: come, get, bring in · To what, where: fortress, people
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 while | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 fortress | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fortress | det |
| 9 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | obl |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 trouble | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 trouble | det |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Kevin | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Kevin | case |
| 21 | Kevin | Kevin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 trouble | appos |
| 22 | Cochlach | Cochlach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Kevin | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 charioteer | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 charioteer | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 king | case |
| 27 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Kevin | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 brought | punct |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 brought | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | people | the fortress | while | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fortress=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | get | past | people | fortress | without any trouble | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | |||
| 3 | bring in | past | people not said here | people | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Asset |
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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