Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 2
A tricky place that would be, with sudden exits and even suddener entrances, and with damp, winding, spidery places to hoard treasure in, or to hide oneself in.
What happens: wind, hoard, hide in · To what, where: spidery places, treasure, oneself
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 place | det |
| 2 | tricky | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 place | amod |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 be | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 place | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 exits | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 exits | case |
| 9 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 exits | amod |
| 10 | exits | exit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 place | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 entrances | cc |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 entrances | advmod |
| 13 | suddener | suddener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entrances | compound |
| 14 | entrances | entrance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 exits | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 damp | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 damp | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 damp | case |
| 18 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 winding | punct |
| 20 | winding | wind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 damp | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 places | punct |
| 22 | spidery | spidery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 places | amod |
| 23 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 winding | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 hoard | mark |
| 25 | hoard | hoard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 winding | advcl |
| 26 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hoard | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 hoard | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hide | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 hide | cc |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 hide | mark |
| 31 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hoard | conj |
| 32 | oneself | oneself | PRON | Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 hide | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 hide | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wind | gerund | spidery places | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hoard | to-infinitive | treasure | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hide in | to-infinitive | oneself | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oneself=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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