Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 39
He drank this deeply, as though he was full of thirst and despair and a wild jollity, but when the Flame Lady began to weep he took her in his arms and caressed her, and said that she was the love of his heart and the one treasure of the world.
Who acts: Branduv, Flame Lady, Lady · What happens: drink, be, begin, weep, take, caress · To what, where: this, Lady, arms, love, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Branduv, Flame Lady, Lady), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 drank | obj |
| 4 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 2 drank | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 full | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 full | mark |
| 7 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 full | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 full | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 full | cop |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 drank | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thirst | case |
| 12 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 despair | cc |
| 14 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thirst | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 jollity | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 jollity | det |
| 17 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 jollity | amod |
| 18 | jollity | jollity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thirst | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 took | cc |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 began | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Lady | det |
| 23 | Flame | Flame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Lady | compound |
| 24 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 began | nsubj |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 took | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 weep | mark |
| 27 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 began | xcomp |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 took | nsubj |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | parataxis |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 took | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 arms | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 arms | nmod:poss |
| 33 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 took | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 caressed | cc |
| 35 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 took | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 caressed | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 said | cc |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | parataxis |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 love | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 love | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 love | cop |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 love | det |
| 44 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 said | ccomp |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 heart | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 heart | nmod:poss |
| 47 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 love | nmod |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 treasure | cc |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 treasure | det |
| 50 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 51 treasure | nummod |
| 51 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 love | conj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 world | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 world | det |
| 54 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 treasure | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | Branduv | this | deeply property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Branduv | of thirst and despair and a wild jollity; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the Flame Lady | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | weep | to-infinitive | the Flame Lady not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | take | past | Branduv | Lady | Branduv's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 6 | caress | past | Branduv not said here | Lady | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | is a | past | Lady | the love and the one treasure of the world | of Branduv's heart | tree rules | |||
| 9 | treasure | the world | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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