Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 1
“Then my soul rose to the height of Doom, and I intended all that might happen to me, and agreed to it.
Who acts: soul, I, that · What happens: rise, intend, happen, agree · To what, where: height, me, soul · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul, I, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 rose | advmod |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 soul | nmod:poss |
| 4 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 height | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 height | det |
| 8 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Doom | case |
| 10 | Doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 height | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 intended | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 intended | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 intended | nsubj |
| 14 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 that | det:predet |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 happen | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 happen | aux |
| 18 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 intended | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 happen | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 agreed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 agreed | cc |
| 23 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 agreed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise in a quote | past | my soul | the height of Doom | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to height=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | intend in a quote | past | I | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen in a quote | might | that | me | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree in a quote | past | my soul not said here | soul | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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