Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 8
He was never thanked, of course, for although Fionn loved Goll he did not like him, and that was how Goll felt towards Fionn.
Who acts: Fionn, that · What happens: not thank, love, not like, be · To what, where: call, Goll
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 (Fionn, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thanked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | aux:pass |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 thanked | advmod |
| 4 | thanked | thank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 course | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 course | case |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 loved | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 loved | mark |
| 10 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 12 loved | mark |
| 11 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | conj |
| 13 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 loved | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 like | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 loved | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 like | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 felt | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 felt | cc |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 felt | cop |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 felt | advmod |
| 24 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | conj |
| 26 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 Fionn | case |
| 27 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 felt | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not thank speech: thank | past · passive | call | of course | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | love | past | Fionn | Goll | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | Fionn | Goll | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that | towards Fionn; feel 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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