Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 6

You will cross clay to get into the Shi’; you will cross water to attain the Many-Coloured Land; fire must be passed ere the Land of Wonder is attained, but we do not know what will be crossed for the fourth world.

Who acts: You, we · What happens: cross, get, attain, pass, not know · To what, where: clay, Shi, water, Coloured Land, fire, Land · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, we), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cross	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	aux
3	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cross	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cross	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 Shi	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Shi	det
9	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
10	’	's	PART	_	9 Shi	case
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 cross	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 cross	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cross	aux
14	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cross	parataxis
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cross	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 attain	mark
17	attain	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cross	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Land	det
19	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Coloured	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Many	punct
21	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Land	amod
22	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 attain	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 passed	punct
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 passed	nsubj:pass
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 passed	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 passed	aux:pass
27	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 cross	conj
28	ere	ere	ADP	_	30 Land	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Land	det
30	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 passed	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Wonder	case
32	Wonder	Wonder	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 attained	obl
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 attained	aux:pass
34	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 Land	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 know	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 know	cc
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 know	nsubj
38	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 know	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 know	advmod
40	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cross	parataxis
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 crossed	obj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 crossed	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 crossed	aux:pass
44	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 know	ccomp
45	for	for	ADP	_	48 world	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 world	det
47	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	48 world	amod
48	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 crossed	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cross	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cross	future	You	clay			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Patient
2	get	to-infinitive	You not said here	the Shi			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shi=Stimulus
3	cross	future	you	water			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	attain	to-infinitive	you not said here	the Coloured Land			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
5	pass	must · passive		fire	ere the Land		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
6	attain	present · passive		the Land not said here		of Wonder	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»
7	not know	present · do-support	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	cross	future · passive				for the fourth world	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: what=Patient

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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