Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 10
It seems, then, that there is marriage in two other spheres.
Who acts: It, marriage · What happens: seem, be
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 (It, marriage), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 seems | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 is | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 seems | parataxis |
| 9 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 spheres | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 spheres | nummod |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spheres | amod |
| 13 | spheres | sphere | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 marriage | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | then | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | marriage in two other spheres | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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