Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 2

Everything that is here is there, but the things that are there are better than those that are here.

Who acts: Everything, things, that · What happens: 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 (Everything, things, 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 there	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 here	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Everything	acl:relcl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 better	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 better	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 things	det
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 better	nsubj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 are	obj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 are	cop
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 are	expl
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 better	cop
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 there	parataxis
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 those	case
17	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 better	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 here	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 here	cop
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 those	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		here property	tree rules
2	is	present	Everything	there property	tree rules
3	is	present	the things	than those; good property	tree rules
4	is	present	that	here 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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