Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 53

This relieved Fin very much; for, after all, he had great confidence in his wife, knowing, as he did, that she had got him out of many a quandary before.

Who acts: Oonagh, wife · What happens: have, know, do, get · To what, where: great confidence, Oonagh, many quandary · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oonagh, wife), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Fin	det
2	relieved	relieved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Fin	amod
3	Fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	3 Fin	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 all	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 for	punct
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Fin	parataxis
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 confidence	amod
15	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 wife	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 confidence	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knowing	punct
20	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 had	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 did	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 did	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 did	nsubj
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 knowing	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 got	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 got	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 got	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 got	aux
29	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 did	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 got	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	35 quandary	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 quandary	case
33	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 quandary	amod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 quandary	det
35	quandary	quandary	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 got	obl
36	before	before	ADV	_	29 got	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Fin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Oonagh	great confidence		for all; in Oonagh's wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient
2	know	gerund	Oonagh not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	past	Oonagh				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	past · perfect	wife	Oonagh	a many quandary	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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