Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 15
One may wonder how, having attained to that sphere, she could have carried with her so strong a memory of the earth.
Who acts: One, mind · What happens: wonder, attain, carry · To what, where: strong memory · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (One, mind), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonder | aux |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 attained | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 attained | punct |
| 6 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 attained | aux |
| 7 | attained | attain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 sphere | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sphere | det |
| 10 | sphere | sphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attained | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 carried | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 carried | aux |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 attained | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carried | obl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 strong | advmod |
| 19 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 memory | amod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 memory | det |
| 21 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 earth | det |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 memory | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | may | One | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | attain | gerund · perfect | to that sphere | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | carry | could · perfect | mind | a strong memory of the earth | with Becuma | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=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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