Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 5
There is more scent in the flowers, more savour in the fruit.
Who acts: more scent · 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 (more scent), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 scent | amod |
| 4 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 flowers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flowers | det |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scent | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 savour | punct |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 savour | amod |
| 10 | savour | savour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flowers | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fruit | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fruit | det |
| 13 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 savour | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | more scent in the flowers and more savour in the fruit | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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