Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 10
There is an immense oak forest--dark, dense, thorny, a place to be strayed in, a place to be utterly bewildered and lost in.
Who acts: immense oak forest · What happens: be, stray, bewilder, lose in
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (immense oak forest), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 4 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 forest | amod |
| 5 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forest | compound |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 dark | punct |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 forest | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dense | punct |
| 10 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dark | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thorny | punct |
| 12 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dark | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forest | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 strayed | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 strayed | aux:pass |
| 18 | strayed | stray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 strayed | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 place | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forest | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 bewildered | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bewildered | aux:pass |
| 25 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 26 bewildered | advmod |
| 26 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 place | acl:relcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lost | cc |
| 28 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 bewildered | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 lost | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | a immense oak forest and a place and a place | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stray | to-infinitive · passive | a immense oak forest and a place and a place not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | bewilder | to-infinitive · passive | a immense oak forest and a place and a place not said here | utterly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 4 | lose in | participle | a immense oak forest and a place and a place not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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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