Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 3

If he had told of these days he would have told of a succession of meals and sleeps, and of an endless conversation, from which his mind would now and again slip away to a solitude of its own, where, in large hazy atmospheres, it swung and drifted and reposed.

Who acts: Life, mind · What happens: tell, slip away, swing, drift, repose, mind · To what, where: days · Speech: someone speaks here

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, mind), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 swung	advcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 days	det
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	aux
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 days	acl:relcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 succession	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 succession	det
14	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 meals	case
16	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 succession	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sleeps	cc
18	sleeps	sleep	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 meals	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 conversation	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 conversation	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 conversation	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 conversation	det
23	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 conversation	amod
24	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 slip	punct
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 slip	obl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mind	nmod:poss
29	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slip	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 slip	aux
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 slip	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 again	cc
33	again	again	ADV	_	31 now	conj
34	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
35	away	away	ADV	_	34 slip	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 solitude	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 solitude	det
38	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slip	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 own	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 own	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 solitude	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 where	punct
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 solitude	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 atmospheres	punct
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 atmospheres	case
46	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 atmospheres	amod
47	hazy	hazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 atmospheres	amod
48	atmospheres	atmosphere	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 swung	nsubj
51	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 drifted	cc
53	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 swung	conj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 reposed	cc
55	reposed	repose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 drifted	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 swung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Life		day	of a endless conversation	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	would · perfect	Life	this days not said here		of a succession of meals and sleeps	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent day=Recipient
3	slip away	would	Life's mind		now	to a solitude of mind's own result; away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from which=Initial_State to solitude=Result
4	swing	past	mind				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	drift	past	mind not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	repose	participle	mind not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	mind		Life				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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