Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 1

The road was now not so crowded as it had been.

Who acts: road · What happens: not be, be

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crowded	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crowded	cop
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 crowded	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 crowded	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 crowded	advmod
7	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 been	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 been	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 been	aux
11	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 crowded	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 crowded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the road				now	crowded property	tree rules
2	be	past · perfect	road						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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