Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 37

“When you are older,” the king counselled him, “you will admire that which is truly admirable, for although the driving is good the lady is better.”

Who acts: you, older, driving, lady · What happens: be, counsell, admire · To what, where: King

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 (you, older, driving, lady), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 older	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 older	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 older	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 older	cop
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 counselled	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 older	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 older	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 counselled	nsubj
10	counselled	counsell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 counselled	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 admire	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 admire	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 admire	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 admire	aux
16	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 counselled	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 admirable	mark
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 admirable	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 admirable	cop
20	truly	truly	ADV	_	21 admirable	advmod
21	admirable	admirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 admire	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 good	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 good	mark
24	although	although	SCONJ	_	28 good	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 driving	det
26	driving	driving	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 good	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 good	cop
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 admire	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lady	det
30	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 better	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 better	cop
32	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 good	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 admire	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 admire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you		old property	tree rules
2	counsell	past	older	King		tree rules
3	admire in a quote	future	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	present			admirable, truly property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	the driving		good property	tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	the lady		good property	tree rules

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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