Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 37

Mongan set out, and in no great time, for they travelled day and night, they came to Bregla, and gained admittance to the fortress, but just as he got in he had to go out again, for the King of Leinster had been warned of Mongan’s journey, and came back to his fortress in the nick of time.

Who acts: Mongan, Kevin · What happens: set out, travel, come, gain, get, have · To what, where: Bregla, admittance, fortress

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, Kevin), 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 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 time	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 time	cc
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 time	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 travelled	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 travelled	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 travelled	nsubj
13	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 travelled	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 night	cc
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 day	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 travelled	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Bregla	case
21	Bregla	Bregla	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gained	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gained	cc
24	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
25	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gained	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 fortress	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fortress	det
28	fortress	fortress	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gained	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 got	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 got	cc
31	just	just	ADV	_	34 got	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 got	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 got	nsubj
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 he	case
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 got	ccomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 go	mark
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
40	out	out	ADV	_	39 go	advmod
41	again	again	ADV	_	39 go	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 King	punct
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 King	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 King	det
45	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 warned	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 Leinster	case
47	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 King	nmod
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 warned	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 warned	aux:pass
50	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 go	advcl
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 journey	case
52	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 journey	nmod:poss
53	’s	's	PART	_	52 Mongan	case
54	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 warned	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 came	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 came	cc
57	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
58	back	back	ADV	_	57 came	advmod
59	to	to	ADP	_	61 fortress	case
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 fortress	nmod:poss
61	fortress	fortress	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 came	obl
62	in	in	ADP	_	64 nick	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 nick	det
64	nick	nick	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 fortress	nmod
65	of	of	ADP	_	66 time	case
66	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 nick	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	Mongan			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	travel	past	Mongan			day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	Mongan		Bregla			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bregla=Initial_Location
4	gain	past	Mongan not said here	admittance			to the fortress result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient admittance=Extent to fortress=Result
5	get	past	Kevin					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	past	Kevin					tree rules
7	go out	to-infinitive	Kevin not said here			again	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	warn speech: warn	past · perfect · passive	Kevin not said here				for the King of Leinster; of Mongan's journey	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: of journey=Topic
9	come back	past			Kevin's fortress in the nick of time			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fortress=Initial_Location
10	journey		Mongan					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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