Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 16
“Only the unconquerable heart of the salmon could brave that end of toil.
Who acts: that · What happens: end
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 brave | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 heart | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heart | det |
| 4 | unconquerable | unconquerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heart | amod |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brave | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 salmon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 salmon | det |
| 8 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nmod |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 brave | aux |
| 10 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 end | nsubj |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brave | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 toil | case |
| 14 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end in a quote | that | of toil | 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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