Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 33
He may have thought that a cow can snort and be dignified at the one moment, and that timidity is comely in a sheep.
Who acts: lack, cow, timidity · What happens: think, snort, dignify, be · 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 (lack, cow, timidity), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 snort | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cow | det |
| 7 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snort | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 snort | aux |
| 9 | snort | snort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dignified | cc |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dignified | aux:pass |
| 12 | dignified | dignify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 snort | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 moment | nummod |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dignified | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 comely | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 comely | cc |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 timidity | det |
| 20 | timidity | timidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comely | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 comely | cop |
| 22 | comely | comely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 sheep | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sheep | det |
| 25 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comely | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | may · perfect | lack | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | snort | can | a cow | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dignify | infinitive · passive | a cow not said here | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that timidity | in a sheep; comely 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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