Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 16

It is certain that she was not a fit person to exist in the Many-Coloured Land, and it is to be feared that she was organised too grossly even for life in the Shi’.

Who acts: It, One · What happens: be, not be, exist, fear · To what, where: fit person, Coloured Land, memory

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 (It, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 certain	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 certain	cop
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 person	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 person	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 person	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 person	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
9	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 certain	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 exist	mark
12	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 person	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	18 Land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Land	det
15	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Coloured	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Many	punct
17	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Land	amod
18	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 exist	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 feared	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 feared	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 feared	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 feared	aux:pass
23	to	to	PART	_	25 feared	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 feared	aux:pass
25	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 certain	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 organised	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 organised	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 organised	cop
29	organised	organised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feared	advcl
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 grossly	advmod
31	grossly	grossly	ADV	_	25 feared	advmod
32	even	even	ADV	_	34 life	advmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 life	case
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feared	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 Shi	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Shi	det
37	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 life	nmod
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 Shi	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 certain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			certain property	tree rules
2	not is a	past	One	a fit person			tree rules
3	exist	to-infinitive			the Coloured Land		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
4	fear	present · passive		memory		for life in the Shi; grossly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus for life=Attribute
5	is	past	One			organised property	tree rules

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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