Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 21

Wild and shy and monstrous creatures ranged in her plains and forests.

What happens: range · To what, where: Wild creatures, plains

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: 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creatures	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 shy	cc
3	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wild	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 monstrous	cc
5	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wild	conj
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	ranged	range	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 creatures	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 plains	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 plains	nmod:poss
10	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ranged	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 forests	cc
12	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plains	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 creatures	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	range	participle		Wild creatures not said here		Eire's plains and forests			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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