Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 4
If the other three had been terrible to look on, this one was more terrible than the three together.
Who acts: other three, one · What happens: be, look on
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other three, one), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 terrible | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 three | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 three | amod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 terrible | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 terrible | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 terrible | cop |
| 7 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 terrible | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 look | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 terrible | punct |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 terrible | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 terrible | cop |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 terrible | advmod |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 terrible | conj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 three | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 three | det |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 terrible | obl |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 three | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 terrible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the other three | terrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look on | to-infinitive | the other three not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | this one | than the three; terrible 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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