Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 4
Under all wrong-doing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
Who acts: feeling · What happens: do, endow, privilege · To what, where: lies, we
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 (feeling), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 8 vanity | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 vanity | advmod |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vanity | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 vanity | csubj |
| 6 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 doing | obj |
| 7 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vanity | amod |
| 8 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 feeling | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 feeling | det |
| 11 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vanity | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 endowed | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 endowed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 endowed | aux:pass |
| 15 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 feeling | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 privileged | cc |
| 17 | privileged | privilege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 endowed | conj |
| 18 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 20 fellows | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fellows | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 privileged | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 vanity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | lies | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | endow | present · passive | the feeling not said here | we | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | privilege | participle | the feeling not said here | beyond our fellows | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/69/4/