Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 8

There is a dense wood where every thorn on every tree is sharp as a spear-point and is curved and clutching.

Who acts: dense wood, thorn · What happens: be, curve, clutch

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 (dense wood, thorn), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wood	det
4	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wood	amod
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 sharp	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 thorn	det
8	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sharp	nsubj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thorn	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sharp	cop
13	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wood	acl:relcl
14	as	as	ADP	_	18 point	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 point	det
16	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 point	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 spear	punct
18	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sharp	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 curved	cc
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 curved	aux:pass
21	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 is	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 clutching	cc
23	clutching	clutch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 curved	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a dense wood	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	every thorn on every tree		as a spear point; sharp property	tree rules
3	curve	present · passive	a dense wood not said here			vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»
4	clutch	gerund	a dense wood not said here			vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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