Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 22

There would have been hours as long, when existence passed like a shade among shadows, in the multitudinous tappings of rain that dripped from leaf to leaf in the wood, and slipped so to the ground.

Who acts: existence, multitudinous tappings, rain · What happens: have, be, pass, drip, slip, tap · To what, where: hours, multitudinous tappings, leaf

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 (existence, multitudinous tappings, rain), 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	3 have	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 hours	cop
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 have	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 passed	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 passed	advmod
10	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	nsubj
11	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 have	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 shade	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shade	det
14	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	obl
15	among	among	ADP	_	16 shadows	case
16	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shade	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tappings	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 tappings	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tappings	det
20	multitudinous	multitudinous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tappings	amod
21	tappings	tapping	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 passed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 rain	case
23	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tappings	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dripped	nsubj
25	dripped	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tappings	acl:relcl
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 leaf	case
27	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dripped	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 leaf	case
29	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dripped	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 wood	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wood	det
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dripped	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 slipped	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 slipped	cc
35	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 passed	conj
36	so	so	ADV	_	35 slipped	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 ground	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ground	det
39	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 slipped	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	would			there	long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle		hours			tree rules
3	pass	participle	existence		the multitudinous tappings of rain	like a shade among shadows	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tapping=Location
4	drip	past	the multitudinous tappings of rain		leaf	to leaf; in the wood	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from leaf=Source
5	slip	past	existence not said here			to the ground	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	tap		rain				nom tapping «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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