Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 13
But the tree that was climbed was not worth while when it had been climbed twice.
Who acts: tree · What happens: climb, not be · To what, where: tree
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 worth | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worth | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 climbed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climbed | aux:pass |
| 6 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tree | acl:relcl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 worth | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 worth | advmod |
| 9 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 climbed | mark |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 climbed | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 climbed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 climbed | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 climbed | aux:pass |
| 15 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 worth | advcl |
| 16 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 climbed | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past · passive | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | the tree | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | climb | past · perfect · passive | tree | twice property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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