Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 38
Goll could do a thing that would be hard for another person, and he could do it so beautifully that he was not diminished by any action.
Who acts: Goll, thing, action · What happens: do, be, not diminish · To what, where: thing, Goll
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goll, thing, action), 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 | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hard | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hard | cop |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 person | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 person | det |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hard | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hard | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 beautifully | advmod |
| 20 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 diminished | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 diminished | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 diminished | aux:pass |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 diminished | advmod |
| 25 | diminished | diminish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 do | advcl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 action | case |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 action | det |
| 28 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 diminished | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | Goll | a thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | would | a thing | for another person; hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | could | Goll | thing | beautifully property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | not diminish | past · passive | any action | Goll | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer subject=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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