Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 52
For at that table Goll should not have given greater gifts than his master and host did.
Who acts: master · What happens: not give, do · To what, where: Goll
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 (master), 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 table | case |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 table | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 table | det |
| 4 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obl |
| 5 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 given | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 given | aux |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 gifts | amod |
| 11 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 given | obj |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 did | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 host | cc |
| 16 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 master | conj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | should · perfect · passive | Goll | for that table | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient gift=Theme for table=Asset | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Goll's master and host | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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