Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 16

There were many blanks in the tale, for a young child does not remember very well.

Who acts: many blanks, young child · What happens: be, not remember

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many blanks, young child), 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 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blanks	amod
4	blanks	blank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tale	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tale	det
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blanks	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 remember	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 child	amod
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remember	nsubj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 remember	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 remember	advmod
15	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 were	conj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 remember	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	many blanks in the tale			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not remember	present · do-support	a young child					well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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