Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 17
Goll’s merry mind would help him to forget, but even his heart would be wrung by a memory that he would not dare to face.
Who acts: merry mind, Goll, memory, mind · What happens: help, forget, wring, not dare, mind · To what, where: Goll, heart, memory
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merry mind, Goll, memory, mind), 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 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mind | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Goll | case |
| 3 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mind | amod |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 help | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 forget | mark |
| 9 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 help | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wrung | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 wrung | cc |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 heart | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wrung | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 wrung | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wrung | aux:pass |
| 17 | wrung | wring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 help | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 memory | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 memory | det |
| 20 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wrung | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 dare | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dare | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 dare | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 dare | advmod |
| 25 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 memory | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 face | case |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dare | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | Goll's merry mind | Goll | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | to-infinitive | Goll not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wring | would · passive | a memory | mind's heart | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not dare | would | mind | a memory not said here | to face | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Recipient | |||
| 5 | mind | Goll | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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