Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 40

But he knew that he would not have known if others were observing him, and that he would not have cared about it if he had known.

Who acts: Chief, others · What happens: know, not know, observe, not care · To what, where: Chief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief, others), 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	_	3 knew	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 known	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 known	nsubj:pass
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 known	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 known	advmod
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 known	aux
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knew	ccomp
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 observing	mark
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 observing	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 observing	aux
13	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 known	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 observing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cared	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cared	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 cared	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cared	nsubj:pass
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cared	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 cared	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 cared	aux
22	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knew	conj
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cared	obl
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 known	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 known	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 known	aux
28	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 cared	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Chief			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not know	would · perfect · passive		Chief		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	observe a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	others	Chief		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	not care	would · perfect · passive		Chief	about eager	tree rules
5	know a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Chief		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=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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