Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 19
In that way, the gates of her own world and the innumerable doors of Faery being closed against her, Becuma was forced to appear in the world of men.
Who acts: Becuma · What happens: close, force, appear · To what, where: gates, Becuma, way, world
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 (Becuma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1886): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forced | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gates | det |
| 6 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 world | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 world | amod |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gates | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 doors | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 doors | det |
| 13 | innumerable | innumerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 doors | amod |
| 14 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gates | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Faery | case |
| 16 | Faery | Faery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 doors | nmod |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 closed | aux:pass |
| 18 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 forced | advcl |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 closed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 closed | punct |
| 22 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 forced | aux:pass |
| 24 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 appear | mark |
| 26 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 forced | xcomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appear | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 men | case |
| 31 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 world | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | gerund · passive | the gates of One's own world and the innumerable doors of Faery | against One | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | force | past · passive | Becuma | that way | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | appear | to-infinitive | Becuma not said here | the world of men | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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