Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 22

Creatures that one could see through and walk through.

Who acts: one · What happens: see through, walk through · To what, where: Creatures

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 (one), 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	Creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 see	obj
3	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Creatures	acl:relcl
6	through	through	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walk	cc
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	conj
9	through	through	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Creatures	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see through	could	one	Creatures				through property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	walk through	infinitive	one not said here					through property	vn rehearse-26.8 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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