Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 4
Everything they did they did together, for they loved to be with each other.
Who acts: cows, Everything · What happens: do, love
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 (cows, Everything), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 did | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Everything | acl:relcl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 loved | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 loved | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 loved | nsubj |
| 10 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 each | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 each | cop |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 each | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 loved | obl |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 each | fixed |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | cows = cow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | past | Everything | together property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | love | past | cows = cow | with each | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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