Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 20
It is pleasant, however, notwithstanding her terrible crime and her woeful punishment, to think how courageous she was.
Who acts: conduct, One · What happens: be, notwithstand, think, incriminate, punish · To what, where: terrible crime · 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 (conduct, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pleasant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleasant | cop |
| 3 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 notwithstanding | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 notwithstanding | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 notwithstanding | punct |
| 7 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 pleasant | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 crime | nmod:poss |
| 9 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crime | amod |
| 10 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 notwithstanding | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 punishment | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 13 | woeful | woeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 punishment | amod |
| 14 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crime | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 notwithstanding | parataxis |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 courageous | advmod |
| 19 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 think | ccomp |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 courageous | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 courageous | cop |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | conduct | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | notwithstand | gerund | conduct not said here | One's terrible crime and One's woeful punishment | however property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | One | courageous property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | incriminate | One | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | punish | One | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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