Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 3

To be alone was no trouble to him who, however surrounded, was to be lonely his life long; for this will be said of Fionn when all is said, that all that came to him went from him, and that happiness was never his companion for more than a moment.

Who acts: trouble, all, happiness · What happens: be, surround, say, come, go, not be · To what, where: trouble, Fionn, this, all, companion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, all, happiness), 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	To	to	PART	_	3 alone	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 alone	cop
3	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trouble	advcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trouble	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 trouble	det
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lonely	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trouble	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 surrounded	nsubj:pass
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 surrounded	punct
11	however	however	ADV	_	12 surrounded	advmod
12	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 trouble	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trouble	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lonely	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	17 lonely	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 lonely	cop
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 life	nmod:poss
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 long	nsubj
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 lonely	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 lonely	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 said	mark
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 said	nsubj:pass
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 said	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	aux:pass
26	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lonely	advcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Fionn	case
28	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 said	obl
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 said	advmod
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 said	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 said	aux:pass
32	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 said	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 went	mark
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 went	nsubj
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 came	nsubj
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 all	acl:relcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 came	obl
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 said	conj
41	from	from	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 went	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 companion	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 companion	cc
45	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 happiness	det
46	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 companion	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 companion	cop
48	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	50 companion	advmod
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 companion	nmod:poss
50	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lonely	conj
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 more	case
52	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	50 companion	conj
53	than	than	ADP	_	55 moment	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 moment	det
55	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 more	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 lonely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive					alone property	tree rules
2	is a	past		no trouble	Fionn			tree rules
3	surround	participle · passive		no trouble			however property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
4	is	past	no trouble				lonely property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	future · passive		this			of Fionn	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
6	say speech: assert	present · passive		all				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
7	come	past			Fionn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
8	go	past	all				from Fionn	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location
9	not is a	past	that happiness	Fionn's companion				tree rules
10	be		that happiness not said here			moment		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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