Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 8
But they did not so give over, for it was not love they gave the lad but adoration.
Who acts: Bran, hound · What happens: not give over, not be, give · To what, where: lad
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 (Bran, hound), 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 | _ | 6 give | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 give | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 give | advmod |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 give | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 love | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 love | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 love | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 love | advmod |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | parataxis |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 love | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lad | det |
| 17 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 adoration | cc |
| 19 | adoration | adoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lad | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give over | past · do-support | Bran | over property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | hound | for love | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Bran | the lad but adoration | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=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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