Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 37
Her intention was to go to Cluain da chaillech to meet Crimthann, but when she left the palace she did not remember Crimthann any more.
Who acts: intention, journey · What happens: be, meet, leave, not remember, intend · To what, where: Crimthann, palace
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intention, journey), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 intention | nmod:poss |
| 2 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 chaillech | case |
| 7 | Cluain | Cluain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chaillech | compound |
| 8 | da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chaillech | compound |
| 9 | chaillech | chaillech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 meet | mark |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | advcl |
| 12 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 meet | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 remember | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 remember | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 left | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | nsubj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 remember | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | obj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 remember | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 remember | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 remember | advmod |
| 23 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 24 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 remember | obj |
| 25 | any | any | ADV | _ | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 remember | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | journey's intention | to Cluain da chaillech; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | journey's intention not said here | Crimthann | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crimthann=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | journey | the palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not remember | past · do-support | journey | Crimthann | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent crimthann=Theme | ||||
| 5 | intend | journey | nom intention «cognition 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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