Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 4

Then he would be back again, and it was a pleasure for him to catch up on the thought that was forward and re-create for it all the matter he had missed.

Who acts: Life, that · What happens: be, catch up, re-create, miss · To what, where: pleasure, thought, matter

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, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 again	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 again	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 again	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 again	cop
5	back	back	ADV	_	6 again	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	12 pleasure	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pleasure	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pleasure	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pleasure	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pleasure	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pleasure	det
12	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pleasure	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 catch	mark
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pleasure	csubj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 catch	compound:prt
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 thought	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thought	det
20	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catch	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 forward	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 forward	cop
23	forward	forward	ADV	_	20 thought	ccomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 re-create	cc
25	re-create	re-create	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 catch	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 re-create	obl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 matter	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 matter	det
30	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 re-create	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 missed	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 missed	aux
33	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 matter	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pleasure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Life			then	again property	tree rules
2	is a	past		a pleasure			for Life	tree rules
3	catch up	to-infinitive			the thought			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	that				forward property	tree rules
5	re-create	infinitive		all matter			for mind	tree rules
6	miss	past · perfect	Life	all matter not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer matter=Stimulus

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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