Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 36
How many people will move through even the remotest wood in a year!
Who acts: many people · What happens: move · To what, where: remotest wood
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many people), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 move | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | aux |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADV | _ | 5 move | advmod |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 wood | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 9 | remotest | remote | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 wood | amod |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | future | many people | the remotest wood | year | through property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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