Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 5
There were no servants in this palace; nor was there need for them.
Who acts: servants · What happens: be, need
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 servants | det |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 servants | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 need | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 there | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 there | cop |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 need | advmod |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 need | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no servants in this palace | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | need | present | no servants in this palace not said here | for servants = servant | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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