Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 1

He had not gone a great distance from Ben Edair when he came to an intricate, gloomy wood, where the trees grew so thickly and the undergrowth was such a sprout and tangle that one could scarcely pass through it.

Who acts: He, Ben, trees, undergrowth, one · What happens: not go, come, grow, be, pass · To what, where: great distance, Ben, intricate, sprout, undergrowth

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 (He, Ben, trees, undergrowth), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 distance	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 distance	amod
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Ben	case
9	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 distance	nmod
10	Edair	Edair	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ben	flat
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 intricate	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 intricate	det
16	intricate	intricate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wood	punct
18	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wood	amod
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 intricate	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grew	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 grew	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trees	det
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 grew	nsubj
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wood	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 thickly	advmod
26	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grew	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sprout	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 undergrowth	det
29	undergrowth	undergrowth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sprout	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sprout	cop
31	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 sprout	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 sprout	det
33	sprout	sprout	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thickly	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tangle	cc
35	tangle	tangle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sprout	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 pass	mark
37	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 pass	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 pass	aux
39	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	40 pass	advmod
40	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 thickly	advcl
41	through	through	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 pass	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	He	a great distance	Ben		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
2	come	past	Ben		a intricate		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to intricate=Initial_Location
3	grow	past	the trees			thickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	the undergrowth	such sprout and tangle			tree rules
5	pass	could	one		undergrowth	scarcely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=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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