Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 16

It is likely the women were fond of him, for other than Fionn there was no life about them.

Who acts: youngster, life · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngster, life), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fond	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fond	cop
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	7 fond	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 women	det
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fond	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fond	cop
7	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fond	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 other	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 other	case
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fond	conj
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 Fionn	case
14	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 other	obl
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fond	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 life	det
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 life	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	youngster		of Bloom; fond, likely property	tree rules
2	be		youngster not said here		than Fionn	tree rules
3	be	past	no life about women	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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