Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 82
That was no place for a sick person to be.
Who acts: That · What happens: be · To what, where: 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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 place | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 place | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 person | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 7 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 person | amod |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 place | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 be | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 place | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | no place | for a sick person | 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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