Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 25

Perhaps he did not see the lark for a long time, but he would have heard him, far out of sight in the endless sky, thrilling and thrilling until the world seemed to have no other sound but that clear sweetness; and what a world it was to make that sound!

Who acts: existence, world · What happens: not see, hear, thrill, seem, have, be · To what, where: lark, world, other sound

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, 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lark	det
7	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 heard	aux
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 see	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sight	punct
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 sight	advmod
21	out	out	ADP	_	23 sight	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 sight	case
23	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 sky	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sky	det
26	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sky	amod
27	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sight	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thrilling	punct
29	thrilling	thrill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 heard	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thrilling	cc
31	thrilling	thrill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 thrilling	conj
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	35 seemed	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seemed	nsubj
35	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 thrilling	ccomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 have	mark
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 seemed	xcomp
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 sound	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sound	amod
40	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	obj
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 sweetness	cc
42	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 sweetness	det
43	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 sweetness	amod
44	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sound	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 make	cc
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 make	obj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 world	det
49	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 make	nsubj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 make	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 make	cop
52	to	to	PART	_	53 make	mark
53	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	conj
54	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 sound	det
55	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 make	obj
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	existence	the lark	time	perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lark=Stimulus
2	hear	would · perfect	existence	world			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	thrill	gerund	existence not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	thrill	gerund	existence not said here				tree rules
5	seem	past	the world				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	have	to-infinitive	the world not said here	no other sound but that clear sweetness			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
7	is	past	a world			make property	tree rules

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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