Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 24

Mongan pretended to be very angry then.

Who acts: Mongan · What happens: pretend, be

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. 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 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 angry	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pretended	advcl
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 pretended	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	Mongan				then		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Mongan not said here					angry property	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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