Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 1

There are more worlds than one, and in many ways they are unlike each other.

Who acts: more worlds · What happens: be · To what, where: many ways

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 (more worlds), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 worlds	amod
4	worlds	world	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 worlds	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ways	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ways	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 ways	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ways	amod
11	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 each	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 each	cop
14	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 ways	appos
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	more worlds than one			many ways; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location

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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