Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 14
The world knew it, and there was not a champion but admitted sorrowfully that there was reason for his love.
Who acts: world, reason · What happens: know, not be, admit, be, love · To what, where: thorn, champion
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, reason), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 world | det |
| 2 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 champion | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 was | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 champion | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 champion | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 champion | det |
| 11 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obl |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 admitted | cc |
| 13 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 14 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 13 admitted | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 admitted | advcl |
| 18 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 love | nmod:poss |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reason | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the world | thorn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | a champion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | past | the world not said here | sorrowfully property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | be | past | reason for reason's love | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | love | reason | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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