Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 11

There was the marsh too; a whole new life to be learned; a complicated, mysterious, dank, slippery, reedy, treacherous life, but with its own beauty and an allurement that could grow on one, so that you could forget the solid world and love only that which quaked and gurgled.

Who acts: marsh, allurement, you · What happens: be, learn, grow, forget, love, quake · To what, where: solid world

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marsh, allurement, you), 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	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 marsh	det
4	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	too	too	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 life	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 life	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 life	amod
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 life	amod
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 learned	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 learned	aux:pass
13	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 life	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 life	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 life	det
16	complicated	complicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 life	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mysterious	punct
18	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 complicated	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dank	punct
20	dank	dank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 complicated	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 slippery	punct
22	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 complicated	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reedy	punct
24	reedy	reedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 complicated	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 complicated	punct
26	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 life	amod
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 beauty	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 beauty	cc
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 beauty	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 beauty	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beauty	amod
33	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 life	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 allurement	cc
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 allurement	det
36	allurement	allurement	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 beauty	conj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 grow	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 grow	aux
39	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 allurement	acl:relcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 one	case
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 grow	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 forget	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	47 forget	advmod
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 forget	mark
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 forget	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 forget	aux
47	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 beauty	parataxis
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 world	det
49	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 world	amod
50	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 forget	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 love	cc
52	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 forget	conj
53	only	only	ADV	_	56 quaked	advmod
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 quaked	mark
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 quaked	nsubj
56	quaked	quake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 love	ccomp
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 gurgled	cc
58	gurgled	gurgle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 quaked	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	the marsh		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	to-infinitive · passive	the marsh not said here				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»
3	grow	could	a allurement			on one	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Location
4	forget	could	you	the solid world			tree rules
5	love	present	you not said here				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	quake	past					vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	gurgle	participle					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP 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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