Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 37

“I only want to keep my good opinion of women, and if the three yonder are women, then I feel sure I shall begin to dislike females from this minute out.”

Who acts: Cona’n, three women, my · What happens: want, keep, be, feel, begin, dislike out · To what, where: good opinion, three women, females, women · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cona’n, three women, my), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 opinion	nmod:poss
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 opinion	amod
9	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 women	case
11	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 opinion	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 feel	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 feel	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 women	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 three	det
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 women	nummod
17	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	16 three	advmod
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 women	cop
19	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 feel	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 women	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 feel	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 feel	nsubj
23	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	conj
24	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feel	xcomp
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 begin	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 begin	aux
27	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sure	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 dislike	mark
29	dislike	dislike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begin	xcomp
30	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dislike	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 minute	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 minute	det
33	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dislike	obl
34	out	out	ADP	_	29 dislike	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	Cona’n = cona'n				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Cona’n = cona'n not said here	my good opinion of women			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme
3	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present		three women			tree rules
4	feel in a quote	present	three women		then	sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	begin in a quote	shall	Cona’n = cona'n				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	dislike out in a quote	to-infinitive	Cona’n = cona'n not said here	females	minute		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer female=Stimulus
7	opine in a quote		my	women			nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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