--- title: Many a youth was there who had a lithe leaping and lissom step when… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Many a youth was there who had a lithe leaping and lissom step when they started whose step was faint, failing, and faltering when they reached the bothy on account of the length of the way and roughness of the road. Who acts: Many youth, leaping, step. 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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 (Many youth, leaping, step), 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:pg7885:13:65 # text = Many a youth was there who had a lithe leaping and lissom step when they started whose step was faint, failing, and faltering when they reached the bothy on account of the length of the way and roughness of the road. 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 lithe lithe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 leaping leaping NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 lissom lissom ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 17 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 faint faint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 failing fail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 faltering falter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 26 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bothy bothy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 roughness roughness NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | a Many youth | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | | a lithe leaping and lissom step | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaping=Patient | | 3 | **start** | past | leaping | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** | past | step | | | | | faint *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fail** | gerund | leaping *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **falter** | gerund | leaping *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **reach** | past | leaping | the bothy | | account of the length of the way and roughness of the road | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bothy=Theme | | 8 | **account** | | | the length of the way and roughness of the road | | | | | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/66/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Deirdre](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/)