Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 6
For to her mind he was the sunlight in the sun, the brightness in the moonbeam; he was the savour in fruit and the taste in honey; and when she looked from Crimthann to the king she could not but consider that the right man was in the wrong place.
Who acts: desire, Crimthann, right man · What happens: be, look, consider, mind · To what, where: sunlight, sun, savour, fruit, wrong place
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 (desire, Crimthann, right man), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 mind | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 mind | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mind | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sunlight | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sunlight | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sunlight | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sunlight | det |
| 8 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sunlight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brightness | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 brightness | det |
| 14 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sunlight | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 moonbeam | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moonbeam | det |
| 17 | moonbeam | moonbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brightness | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 savour | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 savour | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 savour | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 savour | det |
| 22 | savour | savour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sunlight | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 fruit | case |
| 24 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 savour | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 taste | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 taste | det |
| 27 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 savour | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 honey | case |
| 29 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taste | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 looked | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 looked | cc |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 looked | advmod |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 looked | nsubj |
| 34 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sunlight | parataxis |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 Crimthann | case |
| 36 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 looked | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 king | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 looked | obl |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 could | nsubj |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 looked | advcl |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 could | advmod |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 consider | cc |
| 44 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 looked | conj |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 53 place | mark |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 man | det |
| 47 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 man | amod |
| 48 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 place | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 place | cop |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 place | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 place | det |
| 52 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 place | amod |
| 53 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 consider | ccomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sunlight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | desire | the sunlight and the brightness in the moonbeam and the savour and the taste in honey | the sun | for Crimthann's mind | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | past | desire | the savour and the taste in honey | fruit | tree rules | |||
| 3 | look | past | Crimthann | to the king; from Crimthann | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from crimthann=Theme | ||||
| 4 | consider | infinitive | Crimthann not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the right man | the wrong place | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mind | Crimthann | nom mind «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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