--- title: There was the marsh too; a whole new life to be learned; a complicat… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There was the marsh too; a whole new life to be learned; a complicated, mysterious, dank, slippery, reedy, treacherous life, but with its own beauty and an allurement that could grow on one, so that you could forget the solid world and love only that which quaked and gurgled. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marsh, allurement, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:20:11 # text = There was the marsh too; a whole new life to be learned; a complicated, mysterious, dank, slippery, reedy, treacherous life, but with its own beauty and an allurement that could grow on one, so that you could forget the solid world and love only that which quaked and gurgled. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 marsh marsh NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 16 complicated complicated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 mysterious mysterious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 dank dank ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 reedy reedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 26 treacherous treacherous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 parataxis _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 allurement allurement NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 parataxis _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ _ 53 only only ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 54 that that SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 55 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 56 nsubj _ _ 56 quaked quake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 ccomp _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 gurgled gurgle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | the marsh | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive · passive | the marsh *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **grow** | could | a allurement | | | | | on one | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Location | | 4 | **forget** | could | you | the solid world | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **love** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **quake** | past | | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **gurgle** | participle | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/20/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/20/12/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/20/)