Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 37

There would be much to see and remember and compare, and there would be, always, his two guardians.

Who acts: much · What happens: be, see, remember, compare · To what, where: two guardians

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 (much), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	cop
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 guardians	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 remember	cc
8	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 compare	cc
10	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 be	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 be	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 be	expl
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 be	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 guardians	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 guardians	punct
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 guardians	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 guardians	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 guardians	nmod:poss
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 guardians	nummod
21	guardians	guardian	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 guardians	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			much property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	remember	infinitive				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	compare	infinitive				vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	is a	infinitive	much	blackbird's two guardians	always property	tree rules

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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