Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 2

As she trod cautiously through dim corridors Becfola was glad that, saving the guards, no creature was astir, and that for some time yet she need account to no person for her movements.

Who acts: light, Becfola, creature · What happens: tread, be, save, need, move · To what, where: dim corridors, guards, account

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, Becfola, creature), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 trod	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trod	nsubj
3	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	3 trod	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 corridors	case
6	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 corridors	amod
7	corridors	corridor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trod	obl
8	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 glad	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 glad	cop
10	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 corridors	acl:relcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 saving	mark
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saving	punct
13	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 glad	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 guards	det
15	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saving	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 astir	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 creature	det
18	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 astir	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 astir	cop
20	astir	astir	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 glad	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 that	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 that	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 glad	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 time	case
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 that	nmod
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	29 need	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 need	nsubj
29	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trod	advcl
30	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 need	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 person	case
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 person	det
33	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 need	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 movements	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 movements	nmod:poss
36	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 person	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trod	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tread	past	light		dim corridors		cautiously property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through corridor=Trajectory
2	is	past	Becfola	dim corridors not said here			dim corridors obl; glad property	tree rules
3	save	gerund	Becfola not said here	the guards				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme
4	is	past	no creature				astir property	tree rules
5	need	present	light	account		yet	to no person for light's movements	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot account=Theme
6	move		light					nom movement «act transitive»: poss=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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