Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 2

There is no wonder in that, for it is the pup’s mother teaches it to fight, and women know that fighting is a necessary art although men pretend there are others that are better.

Who acts: wonder, mother, women, fighting, men, others · What happens: be, teach, fight, know, pretend · To what, where: wonder, necessary art · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wonder, mother, women, fighting), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 wonder	det
4	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wonder	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 teaches	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	14 mother	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mother	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 mother	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pup	det
12	pup	pup	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mother	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 pup	case
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 teaches	nsubj
15	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 teaches	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 fight	mark
18	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 teaches	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 know	cc
21	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 know	nsubj
22	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 art	mark
24	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 art	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 art	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 art	det
27	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 art	amod
28	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 know	ccomp
29	although	although	SCONJ	_	31 pretend	mark
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pretend	nsubj
31	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 know	advcl
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 are	expl
33	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pretend	ccomp
34	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 are	nsubj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 better	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 better	cop
37	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 others	amod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no wonder in that			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	wonder				for the pup's mother	tree rules
3	teach speech: other	present	the pup's mother		wonder			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
4	fight	to-infinitive	the pup's mother not said here					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know	present	women					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	present	fighting	a necessary art				tree rules
7	pretend	present	men					tree rules
8	does	present	others			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	present	that				good 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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