Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 36

She left the palace with one maid, and as she crossed the doorway something happened to her, but by what means it happened would be hard to tell; for in the one pace she passed out of the palace and out of the world, and the second step she trod was in Faery, but she did not know this.

Who acts: journey, something, it, second step · What happens: leave, cross, happen, mean, be, tell · To what, where: palace, journey, second step, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey, something, it, second step), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palace	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 maid	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 maid	nummod
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crossed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crossed	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 crossed	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 crossed	nsubj
12	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 something	det
14	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 something	compound
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 happened	nsubj
16	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 crossed	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 happened	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 means	cc
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 means	mark
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 means	nsubj
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 left	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 happened	nsubj
25	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 means	ccomp
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hard	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 hard	cop
28	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 happened	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 tell	mark
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hard	xcomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 pace	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 pace	case
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 pace	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 pace	det
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 pace	nummod
36	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 means	conj
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 passed	nsubj
38	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 pace	acl:relcl
39	out	out	ADP	_	42 palace	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 palace	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 palace	det
42	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 passed	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 world	cc
44	out	out	ADP	_	47 world	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 world	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 world	det
47	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 palace	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 Faery	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 Faery	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 step	det
51	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	52 step	amod
52	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 Faery	nsubj
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 trod	nsubj
54	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 step	acl:relcl
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 Faery	cop
56	in	in	ADP	_	57 Faery	case
57	Faery	faery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 means	parataxis
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 know	punct
59	but	but	CCONJ	_	63 know	cc
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 know	nsubj
61	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 know	aux
62	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 know	advmod
63	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 Faery	conj
64	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	63 know	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	journey	the palace		with one maid	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent palace=Recipient with maid=Theme
2	cross	past	journey				tree rules
3	happen	past	something		journey		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	happen	past	it				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	would				hard property	tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	pass out	past	journey	the palace and the world			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
9	tread	past	journey	the second step not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location step=Theme
10	is	past	the second step			faery property	tree rules
11	not know	past · do-support	journey	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus

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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