Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 32
Would you not sooner stay with me than with them?"
Who acts: you · What happens: stay
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sooner | advmod |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 stay | advmod |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | obl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | would | you | with me; than people; soon property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
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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