Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 19
To her mind Art was not only love, he was freedom, for the poor girl was a captive in her father’s home.
Who acts: Art, love, Morgan · What happens: not be, be, mind · To what, where: love, freedom, captive, home
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 (Art, love, Morgan), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 mind | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mind | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 love | obl |
| 4 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 love | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 love | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 love | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 love | advmod |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 captive | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 freedom | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 freedom | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 freedom | cop |
| 12 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 love | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 girl | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 love | parataxis |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 captive | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 captive | det |
| 20 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 home | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 home | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 father | case |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 captive | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 captive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Art | love and freedom | to Morgan's mind | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Art | freedom | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | love and freedom | a captive | Morgan's father's home | tree rules | |||
| 4 | mind | Morgan | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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