Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 21

Mightily tail and well grown these trees were, and the trunk of each could not have been spanned by ten broad men.

Who acts: ten broad men · What happens: grow, not span · To what, where: trunk

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ten broad men), 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	Mightily	mightily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tail	amod
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 trees	cc
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 grown	advmod
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 trees	amod
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tail	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spanned	aux:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spanned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spanned	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trunk	det
12	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spanned	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 each	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 trunk	nmod
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 spanned	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 spanned	advmod
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 spanned	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 spanned	aux:pass
19	spanned	span	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 trees	acl:relcl
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 men	case
21	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 men	nummod
22	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spanned	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle						well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not span	could · past · perfect · passive	ten broad men	the trunk of each					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme

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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