Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 22

He landed on that lovely island, and went forward under the darting birds, under the apple boughs, skirting fragrant lakes about which were woods of the sacred hazel and into which the nuts of knowledge fell and swam; and he blessed the gods of his people because of the ground that did not shiver and because of the deeply rooted trees that could not gad or budge.

Who acts: sun, nuts, ground, trees · What happens: land, go, dart, skirt, be, fall · To what, where: lovely island, fragrant lakes, woods, sacred hazel, gods, trees

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, nuts, ground, trees), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 landed	nsubj
2	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 island	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 island	det
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 island	amod
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 landed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 landed	conj
10	forward	forward	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	under	under	ADP	_	14 birds	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 birds	det
13	darting	dart	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 birds	amod
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 boughs	punct
16	under	under	ADP	_	19 boughs	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boughs	det
18	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 boughs	compound
19	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 birds	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 skirting	punct
21	skirting	skirt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 went	advcl
22	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lakes	amod
23	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 skirting	obj
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	27 woods	det
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 woods	cop
27	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lakes	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 hazel	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hazel	det
30	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hazel	amod
31	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 woods	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 fell	cc
33	into	into	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 fell	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 nuts	det
36	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 fell	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 knowledge	case
38	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 nuts	nmod
39	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 hazel	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 swam	cc
41	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 fell	conj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 blessed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 blessed	cc
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 blessed	nsubj
45	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 landed	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 gods	det
47	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 blessed	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 people	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 people	nmod:poss
50	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 gods	nmod
51	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	54 ground	case
52	of	of	ADP	_	51 because	fixed
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 ground	det
54	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 blessed	obl
55	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 shiver	nsubj
56	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 shiver	aux
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 shiver	advmod
58	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 ground	acl:relcl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 rooted	cc
60	because	because	SCONJ	_	64 rooted	mark
61	of	of	ADP	_	60 because	fixed
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 rooted	det
63	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	64 rooted	advmod
64	rooted	root	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 blessed	conj
65	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 rooted	obj
66	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	69 gad	nsubj
67	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 gad	aux
68	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 gad	advmod
69	gad	gad	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 trees	acl:relcl
70	or	or	CCONJ	_	71 budge	cc
71	budge	budge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 gad	conj
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 landed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	land	past	sun		that lovely island		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on island=Destination
2	go	past	sun not said here			under the darting birds and the apple boughs; forward property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under bird=Location
3	dart	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	skirt	gerund	sun not said here	fragrant lakes			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Co-Theme
5	is a	past		which woods		of the sacred hazel	tree rules
6	fall	past	the nuts of knowledge		the sacred hazel		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into which=Result
7	swim	past	the nuts of knowledge not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	bless	past	sun	the gods of sun's people		because the ground	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
9	not shiver	past · do-support	the ground				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	root	past	sun not said here	trees		deeply property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
11	not gad	could	trees				tree rules
12	budge	infinitive	trees not said here				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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