Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11
For the dead queen had been so lovely that Conn could not forget her; she had been so kind at every moment that he could not but miss her at every moment; but it was in the Council Chamber and the Judgement Hall that he most pondered her memory.
Who acts: Conn, sun, cairn, keen · What happens: be, not forget, not be, miss, ponder · To what, where: sun, Council Chamber, memory
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, sun, cairn, keen), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 queen | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 queen | amod |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lovely | obl |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lovely | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 lovely | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 lovely | advmod |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 forget | mark |
| 10 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 forget | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 forget | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 forget | advmod |
| 13 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lovely | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 forget | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 kind | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kind | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 kind | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 kind | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 kind | advmod |
| 20 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lovely | parataxis |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 moment | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 moment | det |
| 23 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kind | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 could | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 could | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 kind | advcl |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 kind | advmod |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 miss | cc |
| 29 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 kind | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 miss | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 moment | case |
| 32 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 moment | det |
| 33 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 miss | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 Chamber | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 Chamber | cc |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 Chamber | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 Chamber | cop |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 Chamber | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Chamber | det |
| 40 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Chamber | compound |
| 41 | Chamber | Chamber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lovely | parataxis |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Hall | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Hall | det |
| 44 | Judgement | Judgement | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Hall | compound |
| 45 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Chamber | conj |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 pondered | mark |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 pondered | nsubj |
| 48 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 49 pondered | advmod |
| 49 | pondered | ponder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lovely | advcl |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 memory | nmod:poss |
| 51 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 pondered | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lovely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | for the dead queen; lovely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not forget | could | Conn | sun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | past · perfect | sun | moment | kind property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | miss | infinitive | sun not said here | sun | moment | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is | past | cairn | the Council Chamber and the Judgement Hall | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ponder | past | keen | sun's memory | 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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