Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 30
But if my love went anywhere it went to a mortal, a man of the men of Ireland.”
Who acts: love, my · What happens: go, love · To what, where: mortal
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 (love, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 love | nmod:poss |
| 4 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 6 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 mortal | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mortal | det |
| 11 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mortal | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 man | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Ireland | case |
| 19 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 men | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go a condition, not said to happen | past | my love | anywhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | love | a mortal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mortal=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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