Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 15

Such an idea, however, did not occur to him, for he could not conceive how any woman should fill the place his queen had vacated.

Who acts: idea, woman, queen · What happens: not occur, not conceive, fill, vacate · To what, where: Ireland, place

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 (idea, woman, queen), 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	3 idea	det:predet
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 idea	det
3	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 occur	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 idea	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	9 occur	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 occur	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 occur	advmod
9	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 occur	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 conceive	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 conceive	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 conceive	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 conceive	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 conceive	advmod
17	conceive	conceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 occur	conj
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 fill	advmod
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 woman	det
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fill	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fill	aux
22	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 conceive	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 place	det
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fill	obj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 queen	nmod:poss
26	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 vacated	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 vacated	aux
28	vacated	vacate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 fill	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 occur	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not occur	past · do-support	such idea		Ireland	however property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not conceive	could	idea				vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	fill	should	any woman	the place			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient
4	vacate	past · perfect	Ireland's queen				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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