Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 16
For if Crimthann had been beautiful, this youth was ten times more beautiful.
Who acts: Crimthann, youth · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crimthann, youth), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 6 beautiful | mark |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 beautiful | mark |
| 3 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beautiful | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beautiful | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | cop |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 beautiful | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Crimthann | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this youth | time | beautiful property | tree rules |
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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