Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 3

For he could not forget Duv Laca of the White Hand, and he could not remember her without longing and despair.

Who acts: pleasure · What happens: not forget, not remember, long · To what, where: Duv Laca, Laca

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 forget	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forget	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 forget	advmod
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Laca	compound
7	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 forget	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Hand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hand	det
10	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Hand	amod
11	Hand	Hand	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Laca	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remember	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 remember	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 remember	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 remember	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 remember	advmod
17	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forget	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 remember	obj
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 longing	mark
20	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 remember	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 despair	cc
22	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 longing	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not forget	could	pleasure	Duv Laca of the White Hand	tree rules
2	not remember	could	pleasure	Laca	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	long	gerund	pleasure not said here		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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