Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 9

These, to Fionn, new come from leaves and shadows and the dipple and dapple of a wood, would have seemed wonderful; and the tales they would have told of their masters, their looks, fads, severities, sillinesses, would have been wonderful also.

Who acts: new, tales · What happens: come, have, seem, tell, be · To what, where: leaves, tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new, tales), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 Fionn	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Fionn	punct
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Fionn	case
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Fionn	parataxis
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shadows	cc
11	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 leaves	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dipple	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dipple	det
14	dipple	dipple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaves	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dapple	cc
16	dapple	dapple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dipple	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dapple	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	conj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 have	ccomp
24	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 seemed	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 wonderful	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 wonderful	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tales	det
28	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 wonderful	nsubj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	nsubj:pass
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 told	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 told	aux
32	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 tales	acl:relcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 masters	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 masters	nmod:poss
35	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 told	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 looks	punct
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 looks	nmod:poss
38	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tales	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fads	punct
40	fads	fad	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 looks	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 severities	punct
42	severities	severity	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 looks	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sillinesses	punct
44	sillinesses	silliness	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 severities	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tales	punct
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 wonderful	aux
47	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 wonderful	aux
48	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 wonderful	cop
49	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 come	parataxis
50	also	also	ADV	_	49 wonderful	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Fionn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	new		leaves and shadows and the dipple and dapple of a wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from leaf=Initial_Location
2	have	would	new not said here				tree rules
3	seem	past	new not said here			wonderful property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	would · perfect · passive	the tales and tales's looks and fads and severities and sillinesses not said here	tales = tale		of tales's masters	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	is	would · perfect	the tales and tales's looks and fads and severities and sillinesses			wonderful 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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