Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 8
Nor was this wonderful, for the lad loved him also, and was as eager and intelligent and modest as becomes a prince.
Who acts: Nor, lad · What happens: be, love, become · To what, where: conjecture, prince
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 (Nor, lad), 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wonderful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonderful | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wonderful | nsubj |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loved | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 loved | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lad | det |
| 8 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loved | nsubj |
| 9 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonderful | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 loved | obj |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 loved | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eager | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eager | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 eager | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 eager | case |
| 16 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wonderful | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 intelligent | cc |
| 18 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eager | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 modest | cc |
| 20 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eager | conj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 becomes | mark |
| 22 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 eager | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 prince | det |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 becomes | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Nor | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | the lad | conjecture | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Nor not said here | eager property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Nor not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | Nor not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | become | present | Nor not said here | a prince | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/40/8/