Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 8
And then he sent a message to say that he loved her so much that he would certainly burst of love if it did not stop.
Who acts: Ivell, message · What happens: send, say, love, burst, not stop · To what, where: message, Duv · 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 (Ivell, message), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sent | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 message | det |
| 6 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 loved | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 burst | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 burst | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 burst | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 burst | aux |
| 18 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 19 burst | advmod |
| 19 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 loved | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burst | obl |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 stop | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stop | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stop | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 stop | advmod |
| 26 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 burst | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Ivell | a message | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Ivell not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | love | past | Ivell | Duv | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | burst | would | Ivell | of love; certainly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not stop a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | message | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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