Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 21

There would have been for little Fionn long hours of lonely sunshine, when the world seemed just sunshine and a sky.

Who acts: world · What happens: be, seem · To what, where: sunshine

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), 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	4 been	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 been	aux
4	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 hours	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Fionn	amod
7	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hours	compound
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hours	amod
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 been	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sunshine	case
11	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sunshine	amod
12	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hours	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 seemed	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sunshine	acl:relcl
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 sunshine	advmod
19	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seemed	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sky	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sunshine	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 been	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would · perfect				there	hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	the world	sunshine and a sky					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sunshine=Attribute

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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