Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 41
And he knew that his Saeve would not have seen, and would not have cared for any eyes than his.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: know, not see, not care · To what, where: Saeve · 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), 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 | And | and | 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 | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Saeve | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Saeve | Saeve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 seen | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seen | aux |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cared | cc |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cared | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 cared | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cared | aux |
| 16 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 knew | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 eyes | det |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cared | obl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 his | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cared | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Chief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not see | would · perfect · passive | Chief's Saeve | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not care | would · perfect | Chief not said here | for any eyes; than Chief | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for eye=Theme |
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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