Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 59
When he saw her he did not see the world, and when he saw the world without her it was as though he saw nothing, or as if he looked on a prospect that was bleak and depressing.
Who acts: Saeve, world, prospect · What happens: see, not see, be, look, depress · To what, where: Fionn, world · Speech: someone speaks here
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, world, prospect), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 see | advmod |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | obl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj:outer |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | cop |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 saw | advmod |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 saw | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | conj |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 saw | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 looked | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 looked | cc |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 looked | mark |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 looked | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 looked | nsubj |
| 32 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 prospect | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 prospect | det |
| 35 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 looked | obl |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 bleak | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 bleak | cop |
| 38 | bleak | bleak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 prospect | acl:relcl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 depressing | cc |
| 40 | depressing | depress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 bleak | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Saeve | Fionn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · do-support | Saeve | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Saeve | the world | without Fionn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | past | world | see property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look a condition, not said to happen | past | Saeve | on a prospect | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on prospect=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | a prospect | bleak property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | depress | gerund | a prospect not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/34/59/