Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 40
After that they feasted in great contentment, and at the end of the feasting they went away from Faery and returned to the world of men.
Who acts: treasures · What happens: feast, go away, return · To what, where: great contentment, end
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 (treasures), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 feasted | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feasted | nsubj |
| 4 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 contentment | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 contentment | amod |
| 7 | contentment | contentment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feasted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 feasting | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 feasting | det |
| 15 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feasted | parataxis |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Faery | case |
| 20 | Faery | Faery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 returned | cc |
| 22 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 returned | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 men | case |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 world | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feast | past | treasures = treasure | great contentment | after that | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go away | past | treasures = treasure | at the end of the feasting | from Faery; away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from faery=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | return | past | treasures = treasure not said here | to the world of men result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to world=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/91/40/