Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 18
“You will yet love her better than she loves you,” said Cromdes, meaning thereby that they would hate each other.
Who acts: You, news, Cromdes, matters · What happens: love, say, mean, hate · To what, where: news, you, each · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, news, Cromdes, matters), 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 | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 love | aux |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 love | advmod |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 love | obj |
| 7 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 love | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 loves | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 loves | nsubj |
| 10 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 better | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 loves | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Cromdes | Cromdes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 meaning | punct |
| 17 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 18 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 17 meaning | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 hate | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hate | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hate | aux |
| 22 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 meaning | advcl |
| 23 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 22 hate | obj |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 each | fixed |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | future | You | news | yet | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | love in a quote | present | news | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Cromdes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mean | gerund | Cromdes not said here | thereby property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hate | would | matters = matter | each | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
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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