Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 23

He would have known little snaky paths, narrow enough to be filled by his own small feet, or a goat’s; and he would have wondered where they went, and have marvelled again to find that, wherever they went, they came at last, through loops and twists of the branchy wood, to his own door.

Who acts: own small feet, existence, paths · What happens: know, fill, wonder, go, marvell, find · To what, where: existence, that, last, branchy wood

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own small feet, existence, paths), 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	4 known	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 known	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 known	aux
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 paths	amod
6	snaky	snaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 paths	amod
7	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 known	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 narrow	punct
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 paths	amod
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 narrow	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	13 filled	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 filled	aux:pass
13	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 narrow	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	18 feet	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feet	amod
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feet	amod
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 filled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 goat	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 goat	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 goat	det
22	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 filled	obl
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 goat	case
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 wondered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wondered	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wondered	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 wondered	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 wondered	aux
29	wondered	wonder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 went	advcl
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 went	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 known	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 marvelled	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 marvelled	cc
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 marvelled	aux
36	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 known	conj
37	again	again	ADV	_	36 marvelled	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 find	mark
39	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 marvelled	advcl
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 find	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 went	punct
42	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	44 went	advmod
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 went	nsubj
44	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 marvelled	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 came	punct
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 came	nsubj
47	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 went	conj
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 last	case
49	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 came	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 loops	punct
51	through	through	ADP	_	52 loops	case
52	loops	loop	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 came	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 twists	cc
54	twists	twist	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 loops	conj
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 wood	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 wood	det
57	branchy	branchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 wood	amod
58	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 twists	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 door	punct
60	to	to	ADP	_	63 door	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 door	nmod:poss
62	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 door	amod
63	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 came	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would · perfect · passive		existence				tree rules
2	fill	to-infinitive · passive	existence's own small feet				's a goat	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	wonder speech: ask	would · perfect	existence					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	go	past	paths = path					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	marvell	infinitive · perfect				again		tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive		that				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
7	go	past	paths = path				wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come	past	paths = path		last		through loops and twists of the branchy wood; to existence's own door	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through loop=Initial_Location to door=Destination
9	twist			the branchy wood				nom twist «event 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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