Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 18
“There never was a year when Tibraide’s were as plentiful as they are this year.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 plentiful | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 was | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 plentiful | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 plentiful | advmod |
| 8 | Tibraide | Tibraide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 plentiful | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Tibraide | case |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 plentiful | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 plentiful | advmod |
| 12 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 year | case |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 year | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 year | cop |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plentiful | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 plentiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | plentiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Mongan | as this year | tree rules |
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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