Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 6

This did not seem unreasonable to one who had himself ventured much in Faery, and who had known so many of the people of that world leave their own land for the love of a mortal.

Who acts: This · What happens: not seem, venture, know, leave, love · To what, where: unreasonable one, Faery, many, own land, mortal

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 (This), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 seem	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seem	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 seem	advmod
4	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	unreasonable	unreasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 ventured	nsubj:pass
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 ventured	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ventured	aux
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 had	obj
11	ventured	venture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seem	parataxis
12	much	much	ADV	_	11 ventured	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Faery	case
14	Faery	Faery	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ventured	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 known	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 known	cc
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 known	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 known	aux
19	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ventured	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 many	advmod
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 known	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 people	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 many	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 people	nmod
28	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 known	xcomp
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 land	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 land	amod
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leave	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 love	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 love	det
34	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leave	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 mortal	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 mortal	det
37	mortal	mortal	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 love	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not seem	past · do-support	This				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	venture	past · perfect · passive		unreasonable one	Faery		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	know	past · perfect · passive		many of the people of that world			tree rules
4	leave	infinitive		worlds's own land		for the love of a mortal	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Theme for love=Recipient
5	love			a mortal			nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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