Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 14
When Mongan saw these cows, he fell in love with them as he had never fallen in love with anything before.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: see, fall, not fall · To what, where: cows, love
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | advcl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 cows | det |
| 5 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 love | case |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 fallen | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fallen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fallen | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 fallen | advmod |
| 17 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 fell | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 love | case |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fallen | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 anything | case |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 fallen | obl |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 fallen | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Mongan | this cows | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Mongan | love | with cows = cow | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 3 | not fall | past · perfect | Mongan | love | with anything; before property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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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