Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 25
“That is how long the love of a mortal lasts,” she added, in the voice of sad triumph which is proper to sisters.
Who acts: That, mortal, sister, sad triumph · What happens: be, last, add · To what, where: love, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, mortal, sister, sad triumph), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 love | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 love | cop |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 love | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 love | det |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 added | obl |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 lasts | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mortal | det |
| 10 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lasts | nsubj |
| 11 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 love | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 added | nsubj |
| 15 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 voice | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 added | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 triumph | case |
| 21 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 triumph | amod |
| 22 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 voice | nmod |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 proper | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 proper | cop |
| 25 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 triumph | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 sisters | case |
| 27 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 proper | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the love | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | last in a quote | present | a mortal | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | sister | the voice of sad triumph | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | sad triumph | to sisters; proper property | tree rules |
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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