More English Fairy Tales, LV. Lawkamercyme, sentence 8
If THOU--then what this sensual impotence?
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 THOU | mark |
| 2 | THOU | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 impotence | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 impotence | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 impotence | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 impotence | nsubj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 impotence | det |
| 7 | sensual | sensual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 impotence | amod |
| 8 | impotence | impotence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 impotence | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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