Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 5
But the mind of Becfola was not of this temperate quality, and, lacking Crimthann, it seemed to her that she possessed nothing.
Who acts: mind, it, Crimthann · What happens: not be, lack, seem, possess, mind · To what, where: Crimthann, temperate quality, nothing, Becfola
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 (mind, it, Crimthann), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 quality | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mind | det |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quality | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Becfola | case |
| 5 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 quality | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 quality | advmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 quality | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 quality | det |
| 10 | temperate | temperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 quality | amod |
| 11 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seemed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seemed | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lacking | punct |
| 15 | lacking | lack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 seemed | advcl |
| 16 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lacking | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lacking | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seemed | nsubj |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 quality | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seemed | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 possessed | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 possessed | nsubj |
| 24 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seemed | advcl |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 possessed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 quality | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the mind of Becfola | of this temperate quality | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lack | gerund | Crimthann | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | this temperate quality not said here | Crimthann | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quality=Attribute | |||
| 4 | possess | past | Crimthann | nothing | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mind | Becfola | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=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.
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