Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 18
But the young prince did not take any notice of her while she stood by the board, for he knew that this girl was the enemy of Ireland, and he could not bring himself even to look at her.
Who acts: young prince, Becuma, prince, girl · What happens: not take, stand, know, be, not bring, look · To what, where: notice, enemy, prince, Becuma · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young prince, Becuma, prince, girl), 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 | _ | 7 take | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prince | amod |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 take | advmod |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 notice | det |
| 9 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 notice | nmod |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 stood | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | advcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 board | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 board | det |
| 17 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 knew | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stood | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 enemy | mark |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 girl | det |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 enemy | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 enemy | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 enemy | det |
| 27 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knew | ccomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Ireland | case |
| 29 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 enemy | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bring | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bring | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 bring | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 bring | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 bring | advmod |
| 35 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | conj |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 bring | obj |
| 37 | even | even | ADV | _ | 39 look | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 look | mark |
| 39 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 bring | parataxis |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 look | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · do-support | the young prince | any notice of Becuma | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Becuma | by the board | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by board=Location | ||||
| 3 | know | past | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | this girl | the enemy | of Ireland | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not bring | could | prince | prince | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 6 | look | to-infinitive | at Becuma | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||||
| 7 | notice | Becuma | nom notice «communication 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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