Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 5
She could not keep him with her for dread of the clann-Morna.
Who acts: mother · What happens: not keep, dread · To what, where: Lia, clann Morna
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 (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 keep | advmod |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 dread | case |
| 9 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Morna | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Morna | det |
| 12 | clann | clann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Morna | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 clann | punct |
| 14 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dread | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | could | mother | Lia | with Fewn; for dread of the clann Morna | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | dread | the clann Morna | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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