Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 17
As time went on the poor Flame Lady grew more and more jealous of Duv Laca, and more and more certain that, if only she could know what had happened, she would get some ease to her tormented heart and some assuagement of her perfectly natural curiosity.
Who acts: poor Flame Lady, Lady · What happens: go, grow, know, happen, get, torment · To what, where: ease, Duv, heart, natural curiosity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Flame Lady, Lady), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 grew | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lady | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Lady | amod |
| 7 | Flame | Flame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lady | compound |
| 8 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 grew | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 jealous | cc |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 jealous | advmod |
| 13 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Duv | case |
| 15 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 jealous | obl |
| 16 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Duv | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 certain | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 certain | cc |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 certain | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 certain | cc |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 certain | advmod |
| 22 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 get | mark |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 that | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 know | mark |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 know | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 know | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 know | aux |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 get | advcl |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 happened | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 happened | aux |
| 32 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 know | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 get | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 get | aux |
| 36 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 tormented | advcl |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 ease | det |
| 38 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 get | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 get | obl |
| 41 | tormented | torment | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 certain | conj |
| 42 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 tormented | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 assuagement | cc |
| 44 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 assuagement | det |
| 45 | assuagement | assuagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 heart | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 curiosity | case |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 48 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 49 natural | advmod |
| 49 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 curiosity | amod |
| 50 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 assuagement | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | the poor Flame Lady | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen | could | Lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | get | would | Lady | some ease | Duv | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ease=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | torment | past | heart and some assuagement of Duv's natural curiosity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | assuage | Duv's natural curiosity | nom assuagement «feeling 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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