Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 15
“Who could avoid loving him?” she murmured.
Who acts: mind · What happens: avoid, love, murmur · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 avoid | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 avoid | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 avoid | aux |
| 4 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 murmured | ccomp |
| 5 | loving | love | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 avoid | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 loving | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 avoid | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 avoid | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 murmured | nsubj |
| 10 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid in a quote | could | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | love in a quote | gerund | king | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | murmur speech: other | past | mind | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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