Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 9

She was so long that you thought you would never see the end of her, and she was so thin that you thought you didn’t see her at all.

Who acts: Hag, you · What happens: be, think, not see · To what, where: end, Hag, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hag, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 thought	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thought	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 end	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thin	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thin	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thin	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thin	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 thin	advmod
21	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 thought	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thin	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 see	advmod
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thought	ccomp
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 see	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hag			long property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not see	would	you	the end of Hag			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus
4	is	past	Hag			thin property	tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not see	past · do-support	you	Hag	all		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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