Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 27
She determined that the woman who had supplanted her in Iollan’s affections should rue the day she did it.
Who acts: sister · What happens: determine, supplant, rue, do · To what, where: woman, affections, rage
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 (sister), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 supplanted | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supplanted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 supplanted | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 supplanted | aux |
| 8 | supplanted | supplant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 rue | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 supplanted | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 affections | case |
| 11 | Iollan | Iollan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 affections | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Iollan | case |
| 13 | affections | affection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 supplanted | obl |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 rue | aux |
| 15 | rue | rue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 determined | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rue | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 day | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | sister | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | supplant | past · perfect · passive | the woman | Iollan's affections | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rue | should | sister not said here | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | do | past | sister | rage | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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