Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 29

And the corded champion whimpered in her arms, for he did not know but eating might indeed be his fate, and he would have preferred to be coffined anywhere in the world rather than to be coffined inside of that face.

Who acts: corded champion, lip · What happens: cord, whimper, not know, eat, be, prefer · To what, where: arms, fate, world, face

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corded champion, lip), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 whimpered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 champion	det
3	corded	cord	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 champion	amod
4	champion	champion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whimpered	nsubj
5	whimpered	whimper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 arms	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod:poss
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 whimpered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 know	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 whimpered	parataxis
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 eating	cc
16	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 know	conj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fate	aux
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	21 fate	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 fate	cop
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 fate	nmod:poss
21	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eating	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 preferred	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 preferred	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 preferred	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 preferred	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 preferred	aux
27	preferred	prefer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 whimpered	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	30 coffined	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 coffined	aux:pass
30	coffined	coffin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 preferred	advcl
31	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 coffined	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 coffined	obl
35	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	39 coffined	cc
36	than	than	ADP	_	35 rather	fixed
37	to	to	PART	_	39 coffined	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 coffined	aux:pass
39	coffined	coffin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 coffined	conj
40	inside	inside	ADP	_	43 face	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 face	case
42	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 face	det
43	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 coffined	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 whimpered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cord	participle					tree rules
2	whimper	participle	the corded champion		champion's arms		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	past · do-support	lip				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	eat	gerund	lip not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	might		lip's fate		indeed property	tree rules
6	prefer	would · perfect	lip				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	coffin	to-infinitive · passive	lip not said here		the world	anywhere property	tree rules
8	coffin	to-infinitive · passive	lip not said here		that face		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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