Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 56
Indeed, Fionn loved Saeve as he had not loved a woman before and would never love one again.
Who acts: Fionn, Saeve · What happens: love, not love · To what, where: Saeve, woman, one
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 (Fionn, Saeve), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 loved | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Saeve | Saeve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 loved | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 loved | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loved | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 loved | advmod |
| 10 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 loved | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loved | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 loved | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 love | cc |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 love | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 love | advmod |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 loved | conj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 love | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 love | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Fionn | Saeve | indeed property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saeve=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not love | past · perfect | Saeve | a woman | before property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not love | would | Saeve not said here | one | again | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=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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