Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 5

For her husband was at once more than himself and less than himself.

What happens: be

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: 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 husband	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 more	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 more	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 more	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 less	cc
11	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 more	conj
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 less	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 more	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						for wife's husband; than husband; more, once property	tree rules
2	be							than husband	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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