Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 7
Everything in Faery is better by this one wonderful degree, and it is by this betterness you will know that you are there if you should ever happen to get there.
Who acts: Everything, comeliness, you · What happens: be, know, happen, get · To what, where: betterness · Speech: someone speaks here
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, comeliness, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:2217): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 better | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Faery | case |
| 3 | Faery | Faery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Everything | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 degree | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 degree | det |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 degree | nummod |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 degree | amod |
| 10 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 betterness | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 betterness | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 betterness | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 betterness | cop |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 betterness | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 betterness | det |
| 17 | betterness | betterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 betterness | acl:relcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 there | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 there | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 there | cop |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 know | ccomp |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 happen | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 happen | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 happen | aux |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 happen | advmod |
| 29 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 know | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 get | mark |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 happen | xcomp |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 get | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Everything | by this one wonderful degree; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | comeliness | by this betterness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | future | you | this betterness not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer betterness=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | you | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | happen a condition, not said to happen | should | you | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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