Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 1
Life continued for him in a round of timeless time, wherein days and nights were uneventful and were yet filled with interest.
Who acts: Life, days · What happens: continue, be, fill · To what, where: round
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life, days), 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 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 continued | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 round | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 round | det |
| 7 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 continued | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | timeless | timeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 round | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 uneventful | punct |
| 12 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 uneventful | advmod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 uneventful | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nights | cc |
| 15 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 days | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 uneventful | cop |
| 17 | uneventful | uneventful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 continued | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 filled | cc |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 filled | aux:pass |
| 20 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 21 filled | advmod |
| 21 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 uneventful | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 interest | case |
| 23 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Life | a round of timeless time | for him = he | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | days and nights | uneventful, wherein property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | days and nights not said here | yet | with interest | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with interest=Instrument |
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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