Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 30

Perhaps it was he that was afraid of the sons of Morna, and perhaps she loved him.

Who acts: wood, Morna · What happens: be, love · To what, where: cot

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 (wood, Morna), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 afraid	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 afraid	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	cop
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 afraid	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 afraid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	cop
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sons	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sons	det
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 afraid	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Morna	case
12	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sons	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loved	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 loved	cc
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 loved	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 loved	nsubj
17	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 loved	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wood					of the sons of Morna; afraid, perhaps property	tree rules
2	love	past	Morna	cot				perhaps property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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