Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 68

“She is always better than any other woman; she is always better than herself.”

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: be

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), 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	_	5 better	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 better	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 better	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 woman	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 better	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 better	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 better	cop
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 better	advmod
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 better	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 herself	case
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 better	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Fionn					than any other woman; always, good property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	Fionn					than Fionn; always, good property	tree rules

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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