Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 2

He remembered that a path had once been hacked through the wood, and he sought for this.

Who acts: Ben · What happens: remember, hack, seek · To what, where: path, wood · 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 (Ben), 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	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 hacked	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 path	det
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hacked	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hacked	aux
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 hacked	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 hacked	aux:pass
9	hacked	hack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 remembered	ccomp
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hacked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sought	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sought	nsubj
16	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remembered	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 this	case
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 sought	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Ben				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hack	past · perfect · passive		a path	the wood	once property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
3	seek	past	Ben			for this	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for this=Theme

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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