Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 48
She did not want a good home for this dog: she wanted the worst home that could be found in the world, and she thought that Fergus would revenge for her the rage and jealousy which she felt towards Tuiren.
Who acts: Uct, rage · What happens: not want, want, find, think, feel · To what, where: good home, worst home, world
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 (Uct, rage), 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 | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 home | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 home | amod |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 wanted | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wanted | nsubj |
| 13 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 home | det |
| 15 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wanted | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 found | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 found | aux:pass |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 home | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 thought | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 thought | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 thought | nsubj |
| 27 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wanted | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 revenge | mark |
| 29 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 revenge | compound |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 revenge | aux |
| 31 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thought | ccomp |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 thought | obl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rage | det |
| 35 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thought | ccomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 jealousy | cc |
| 37 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rage | conj |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 felt | nsubj |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 felt | nsubj |
| 40 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 rage | acl:relcl |
| 41 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 42 Tuiren | case |
| 42 | Tuiren | Tuiren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 felt | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | past · do-support | Uct | a good home | for this dog | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | past | Uct | the worst home | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | could · passive | the worst home | the world | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Uct | for world | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | the rage and jealousy | towards Tuiren | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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