Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 17

It was pleasant to stand on a branch that swayed and sprung, and it was good to stare at an impenetrable roof of leaves and then climb into it.

Who acts: It, branch · What happens: be, stand, sway, spring, stare, climb · To what, where: branch, tree

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, branch), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pleasant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleasant	cop
3	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stand	mark
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pleasant	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 branch	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 branch	det
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 swayed	nsubj
10	swayed	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 branch	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sprung	cc
12	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 swayed	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 good	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 good	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 good	cop
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pleasant	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 stare	mark
19	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 good	csubj
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 roof	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 roof	det
22	impenetrable	impenetrable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 roof	amod
23	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stare	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 leaves	case
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 roof	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 climb	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 climb	advmod
28	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pleasant	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 climb	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It			pleasant property	tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive		a branch			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location
3	sway	past	a branch				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spring	participle	a branch not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	it			good property	tree rules
6	stare	to-infinitive				at a impenetrable roof of leaves	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at roof=Theme
7	climb	infinitive		tree	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination

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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