Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 29

She was going back secretly, in dread of the sons of Morna, slipping through gloomy woods, keeping away from habitations, getting by desolate and lonely ways to her lord in Kerry.

Who acts: ear · What happens: go back, slip, keep away, get, desolate, dread · To what, where: dread, gloomy woods, habitations, sons

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 (ear), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	5 secretly	advmod
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	3 going	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dread	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 dread	case
8	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sons	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sons	det
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dread	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Morna	case
13	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sons	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 slipping	punct
15	slipping	slip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 going	parataxis
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 woods	case
17	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woods	amod
18	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 slipping	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 keeping	punct
20	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 slipping	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 keeping	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 habitations	case
23	habitations	habitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 keeping	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 getting	punct
25	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 keeping	conj
26	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 desolate	mark
27	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 getting	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 ways	cc
29	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ways	amod
30	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 desolate	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 lord	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 lord	nmod:poss
33	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 desolate	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 Kerry	case
35	Kerry	Kerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 lord	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past · progressive	ear		dread of the sons of Morna	secretly property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	slip	gerund			gloomy woods		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	keep away	gerund			habitations	away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from habitation=Eventuality
4	get	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	desolate	infinitive				to ear's lord in Kerry	tree rules
6	dread			the sons of Morna			nom dread «feeling 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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