Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 4

There are those whose happiness lies in ambition and station, and to such a one the fact of being queen to the High King of Ireland is a satisfaction at which desire is sated.

Who acts: happiness, one · What happens: be, lie, sate · To what, where: ambition, satisfaction, desire

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 (happiness, one), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 happiness	det
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 happiness	nmod:poss
5	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lies	nsubj
6	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 ambition	case
8	ambition	ambition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lies	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 station	cc
10	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ambition	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 satisfaction	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 satisfaction	cc
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 one	case
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 one	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 satisfaction	nsubj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fact	det
18	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 satisfaction	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 queen	case
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 queen	cop
21	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fact	nmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 King	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
24	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 King	amod
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 queen	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Ireland	case
27	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 King	nmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 satisfaction	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 satisfaction	det
30	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	obl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 sated	obl
33	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sated	nsubj:pass
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sated	aux:pass
35	sated	sate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 satisfaction	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	present	that happiness		ambition and station		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ambition=Location
3	is	gerund				of queen; to the High King of Ireland	tree rules
4	is a	present	such one	a satisfaction			tree rules
5	sate	present · passive		desire	a satisfaction		vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: subject=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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