Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 2

He had a thousand names for him, each one more tender than the last: “My Fawn, My Pulse, My Secret Little Treasure,” or he would call him “My Music, My Blossoming Branch, My Store in the Heart, My Soul.”

Who acts: Saeve, My · What happens: have, call, pulse, treasure · To what, where: thousand names, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Saeve, My), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 names	det
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 names	nummod
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 names	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tender	punct
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 tender	det
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 tender	nummod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 tender	amod
12	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 last	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 last	det
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tender	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Fawn	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Fawn	punct
18	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Fawn	nmod:poss
19	Fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Pulse	punct
21	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Pulse	nmod:poss
22	Pulse	pulse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Fawn	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Treasure	punct
24	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 Treasure	nmod:poss
25	Secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Treasure	amod
26	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Treasure	amod
27	Treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Fawn	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Treasure	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 Treasure	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 call	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 call	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 call	aux
33	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 call	obj
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 Music	punct
36	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 Music	nmod:poss
37	Music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 call	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Branch	punct
39	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 Branch	nmod:poss
40	Blossoming	blossoming	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Branch	compound
41	Branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Music	appos
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Store	punct
43	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 Store	nmod:poss
44	Store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Music	conj
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 Heart	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Heart	det
47	Heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 Store	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Soul	punct
49	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 Soul	nmod:poss
50	Soul	Soul	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Music	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 call	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Saeve	a thousand names		for boy; each one more tender than the last obl; My Fawn and My Pulse obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
2	call	would	Saeve		boy		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	pulse in a quote		My				nom pulse «event transitive»: poss=agent
4	treasure in a quote		My				nom treasure «possession 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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