Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 18
“I would not be disliked by you,” Becuma murmured.
Who acts: you, Becuma · What happens: not dislike, murmur · To what, where: Becuma · 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 (you, Becuma), 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 | _ | 6 disliked | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 disliked | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 disliked | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 disliked | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 disliked | aux:pass |
| 6 | disliked | dislike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 murmured | advcl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 disliked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 disliked | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 disliked | punct |
| 11 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 murmured | nsubj |
| 12 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dislike in a quote | would · passive | you | Becuma | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | Becuma | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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