Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 14
She may have felt that she could not make them suffer, and that is a maddening thought to any woman.
Who acts: Becuma, lies, that · What happens: feel, not make, not suffer, madden, be · To what, where: lies, maddening thought
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becuma, lies, that), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 felt | aux |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 make | advmod |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 felt | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 thought | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thought | det |
| 17 | maddening | madden | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 thought | amod |
| 18 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 woman | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 woman | det |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | may · perfect | Becuma | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not make | could | Becuma | lies = lie | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not suffer | infinitive | lies = lie not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | madden | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | that | a maddening thought | to any woman | tree rules |
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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