Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 2

She fell in love with them as Mongan had done, but there was nobody in the world could have avoided loving those cows: such cows they were! such wonders!

Who acts: Duv, Mongan, nobody, cows · What happens: fall, do, be, avoid, love · To what, where: love, cows, such wonders

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, Mongan, nobody, cows), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 love	case
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 done	mark
8	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 done	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 fell	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 was	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 avoided	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nobody	nmod
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 avoided	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 avoided	aux
21	avoided	avoid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 was	ccomp
22	loving	love	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 avoided	xcomp
23	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 cows	det
24	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 loving	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 cows	punct
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cows	amod
27	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 loving	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wonders	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 wonders	cop
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 wonders	punct
31	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wonders	amod
32	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cows	acl:relcl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Duv		love	with cows = cow	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
2	do	past · perfect	Mongan				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	Duv not said here		there		tree rules
4	avoid	could · perfect	nobody				vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	love	gerund	nobody not said here	that cows		such cows obl	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus
6	is a	past	cows = cow	such wonders			tree rules

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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