Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 1
There is a difference between this world and the world of Faery, but it is not immediately perceptible.
Who acts: difference, world · What happens: be, not be
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difference, world), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 difference | det |
| 4 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 difference | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 world | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 difference | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Faery | case |
| 12 | Faery | Faery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 world | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 perceptible | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 perceptible | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 perceptible | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 perceptible | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 perceptible | advmod |
| 18 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 19 perceptible | advmod |
| 19 | perceptible | perceptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | a difference between this world and the world of Faery | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | world | immediately, perceptible property | 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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