Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 57
He loved her as he had never loved anything before.
Who acts: Saeve · What happens: love, not love · To what, where: Fionn, anything
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | obj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 loved | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 loved | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 loved | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 loved | advmod |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 loved | advcl |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 loved | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 loved | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Saeve | Fionn | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not love | past · perfect | Saeve | anything | before property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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