Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5

“How would your lover take it if he could see you now?

Who acts: lover · What happens: take, see · To what, where: sweetheart, you

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover), 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	_	6 take	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 take	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lover	nmod:poss
5	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 see	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	would	your lover	sweetheart					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	lover	you			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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