Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 16
But it is true that Art regarded his mother’s successor with intense dislike, and it is true that she actively returned it.
Who acts: desire, Art, Becuma · What happens: be, regard, return · To what, where: successor, desire
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 (desire, Art, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 true | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 regarded | mark |
| 6 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 regarded | nsubj |
| 7 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 successor | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 mother | case |
| 11 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 regarded | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 dislike | case |
| 13 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dislike | amod |
| 14 | dislike | dislike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 regarded | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 true | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 true | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 true | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 true | cop |
| 19 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 true | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 returned | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 returned | nsubj |
| 22 | actively | actively | ADV | _ | 23 returned | advmod |
| 23 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 true | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 returned | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | desire | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | regard | past | Art | Art's mother's successor | with intense dislike | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent successor=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | desire | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | return | past | Becuma | desire | actively property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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