Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 3
For some time she did not care to come down from the branch.
Who acts: lady · What happens: not care, come down · To what, where: branch
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 (lady), 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 | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 care | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 care | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 care | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 care | advmod |
| 7 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 care | xcomp |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 branch | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 branch | det |
| 13 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past · do-support | lady | time | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come down | to-infinitive | lady not said here | the branch | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from branch=Initial_Location |
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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