Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 32

The woods at that may have seemed haunted.

Who acts: woods · What happens: have, seem, haunt

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 (woods), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woods	det
2	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 woods	nmod
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	ccomp
8	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 have	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	have	may	the woods at that	tree rules
2	seem	past	the woods at that not said here	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	haunt	participle	the woods at that not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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