Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 1
But they were not alone, although they thought they were.
Who acts: they · What happens: not be, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 alone | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 alone | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alone | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 alone | advmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alone | conj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 were | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 alone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | they | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | they | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | they | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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