Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 72

Well, as you may fancy, if they loved Donald little before, they loved him less now.

Who acts: you, dogs · What happens: fancy, love · To what, where: Donald

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dogs), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 fancy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 fancy	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fancy	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fancy	aux
6	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 loved	punct
8	if	if	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	6 fancy	conj
11	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 loved	obj
12	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 before	advmod
13	before	before	ADV	_	10 loved	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 loved	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 loved	nsubj
16	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fancy	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 loved	obj
18	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 now	advmod
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 loved	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fancy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	may	you				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	love a condition, not said to happen	past	dogs = dog	Donald		before property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer donald=Stimulus
3	love	past	dogs = dog	Donald	now		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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