Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 3

That, by itself, is wonderful, for there are few people who remember that they have been to Faery or aught of all that happened to them in that state.

Who acts: That, few people, people · What happens: be, remember, happen · To what, where: people, state · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, few people, people), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 wonderful	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 itself	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 itself	case
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 That	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 itself	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wonderful	cop
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 are	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 are	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 are	expl
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wonderful	conj
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 are	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 remember	nsubj
15	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 people	acl:relcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 Faery	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 Faery	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Faery	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 Faery	cop
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Faery	case
21	Faery	faery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 remember	ccomp
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 aught	cc
23	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	21 Faery	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 that	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 that	det:predet
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 happened	nsubj
27	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 aught	acl:relcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 happened	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 state	case
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 state	det
32	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 happened	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wonderful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			wonderful property	tree rules
2	does	present	few people		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remember	present	few people				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is	present · perfect	people			faery property	tree rules
5	happen	past		people	that state		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in state=Location

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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