Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 13
It was not for nothing that these difficulties and dangers were in his path.
Who acts: giant, that · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: path
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nothing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nothing | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 nothing | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 nothing | case |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 path | nsubj |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 difficulties | det |
| 8 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 path | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dangers | cc |
| 10 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 difficulties | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 path | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 path | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 path | nmod:poss |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | giant | for nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | Art's path | 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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