Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 66

There was such a throng before the church that Trembling could only come inside the gate.

Who acts: throng, Trembling · What happens: be, come · To what, where: church, gate

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (throng, Trembling), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	5 throng	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 throng	det
5	throng	throng	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 church	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
10	Trembling	Trembling	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 church	acl
14	inside	inside	ADP	_	16 gate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	such throng			the church; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before church=Location
2	come	could	Trembling	the church not said here		the gate			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location church=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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