Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 4
There is more gold in the sun and more silver in the moon of that land.
Who acts: gold · What happens: be · To what, where: sun
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 (gold), 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 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 gold | advmod |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 silver | cc |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 silver | amod |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sun | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 moon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moon | det |
| 13 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 silver | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 land | det |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moon | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | gold | the sun and more silver in the moon of that land; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location |
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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