Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 19

Let the oozy marge be forgotten, and the sandy bed where the shades dance all in green and gloom, and the brown flood sings along.’

Who acts: you, oozy marge, shades, brown flood · What happens: let, forget, dance, gloom, sing · To what, where: oozy marge, sandy bed

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, oozy marge, shades, brown flood), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 marge	det
3	oozy	oozy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 marge	amod
4	marge	marge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 forgotten	aux:pass
6	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Let	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dance	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dance	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
10	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bed	amod
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dance	obl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 dance	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shades	det
14	shades	shade	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dance	nsubj
15	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 green	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 green	case
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dance	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gloom	cc
20	gloom	gloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 green	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sings	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sings	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 flood	det
24	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 flood	amod
25	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sings	nsubj
26	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
27	along	along	ADV	_	26 sings	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the oozy marge		tree rules
2	forget	infinitive · passive	the oozy marge not said here			tree rules
3	dance	present	the shades	the sandy bed		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	gloom	present	the shades not said here			tree rules
5	sing speech: express	present	the brown flood		along property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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