Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 16

“When a woman speaks to a man about the love she feels for another man she is not liked.

Who acts: woman · What happens: speak, feel, not like · To what, where: woman · 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 (woman), 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	_	13 feels	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 speaks	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speaks	nsubj
5	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 feels	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speaks	obl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 love	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 love	det
11	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feels	nsubj
13	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feels	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 liked	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 liked	aux:pass
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 liked	advmod
20	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 man	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 feels	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other in a quote	present	a woman		to a man about the love	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent
2	feel in a quote	present	woman		for another man	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for man=Theme
3	not like in a quote	present · passive		woman		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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