Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 21
Lugaidh himself gave the bride away, but it was not a pleasant ceremony for him, because he also was in love with the lady, and he would have preferred keeping her to giving her away.
Who acts: Lugaidh, bargain · What happens: give away, not be, be, prefer, keep · To what, where: bride, pleasant ceremony, love
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lugaidh, bargain), 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 | Lugaidh | Lugaidh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 Lugaidh | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bride | det |
| 5 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ceremony | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 ceremony | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ceremony | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ceremony | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 ceremony | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ceremony | det |
| 13 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ceremony | amod |
| 14 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ceremony | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 love | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 love | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nsubj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 love | advmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 love | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 love | case |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 lady | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lady | det |
| 26 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 love | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 preferred | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 preferred | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 preferred | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 preferred | aux |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 preferred | aux |
| 32 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 gave | conj |
| 33 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 preferred | xcomp |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 keeping | obj |
| 35 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 36 giving | mark |
| 36 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 keeping | advcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 giving | iobj |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 giving | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give away | past | Lugaidh Lugaidh | the bride | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is a | past | bargain | a pleasant ceremony | for Lugaidh | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | Lugaidh | love | with the lady | tree rules | |||
| 4 | prefer | would · perfect | Lugaidh | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | keep not said to happen | gerund | Lugaidh not said here | bride | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give away | gerund | Lugaidh not said here | bride | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=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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