Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 36
Many a person can see a thing and believe a thing and know just as little about it as the person who does neither.
Who acts: Many person, person · What happens: see, believe, know, do · To what, where: thing, neither
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 (Many person, person), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 believe | cc |
| 9 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 believe | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 believe | conj |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 little | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 little | advmod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 know | ccomp |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 little | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 person | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 person | det |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 little | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 does | nsubj |
| 23 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 person | acl:relcl |
| 24 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 does | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | a Many person | a thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | believe | infinitive | a Many person not said here | a thing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | present | a Many person not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | do | present | the person | neither | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neither=Eventuality |
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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