Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 4
In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.
Who acts: we · What happens: not go, become, live, beat · To what, where: Faery, truth, beating, pulse
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 truth | case |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | advmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Faery | case |
| 8 | Faery | Faery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 become | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 become | nsubj |
| 11 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | conj |
| 12 | Faery | faery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 become | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 live | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 live | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 beating | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beating | det |
| 17 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 live | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 pulse | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pulse | det |
| 20 | pulse | pulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beating | nmod |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 live | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 live | aux |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 year | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 year | det |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 live | obl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 years | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 years | det |
| 29 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 years | nummod |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 year | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | present · do-support | we | Faery | truth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to faery=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | become | present | we | faery property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | live | may | we | the beating of a pulse | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beating=Location | |||
| 4 | beat | a pulse | nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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