Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 3
We do not even know her real name, for the name Becfola, “Dowerless” or “Small-dowered,” was given to her as a nickname.
Who acts: We, Nor · What happens: not know, dower, give, name · To what, where: real name, Nor
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Nor), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 name | amod |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Becfola | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 name | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Becfola | obl |
| 13 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Dowerless | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Dowerless | punct |
| 16 | Dowerless | dowerless | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Becfola | appos |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Dowerless | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 given | cc |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 given | punct |
| 20 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dowered | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Small | punct |
| 22 | dowered | dower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 given | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dowered | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 dowered | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 given | aux:pass |
| 26 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Becfola | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 given | obl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 nickname | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 nickname | det |
| 31 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 given | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | We | Nor's real name | Becfola obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | dower in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | We not said here | Nor | as a nickname | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to she=Recipient | |||
| 4 | name | Nor | nom name «communication 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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