Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 41
They came to Mongan’s palace at Moy Linney, and it was not until they reached the palace that they found they had been away one whole year, for they had thought they were only away one night.
Who acts: treasures, palace · What happens: come, not be, find, be, think · To what, where: palace, treasures
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, palace), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 4 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Mongan | case |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Moy | case |
| 8 | Moy | Moy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | nmod |
| 9 | Linney | Linney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Moy | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reached | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reached | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 reached | advmod |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 reached | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 found | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reached | advcl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 away | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 away | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 away | cop |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 found | advmod |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 year | nummod |
| 28 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 year | amod |
| 29 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 away | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 thought | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 thought | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 thought | aux |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 found | conj |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 away | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 away | cop |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 away | advmod |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 thought | advmod |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 night | nummod |
| 40 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 away | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | treasures = treasure | Mongan's palace at Moy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | palace | reach property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | past | treasures = treasure | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | treasures = treasure | year | away property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past · perfect · passive | treasures = treasure | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | treasures = treasure | night | away 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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