Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 16

He may have marvelled, looking on the bright city, with its pillars of gleaming bronze and the roofs that were painted in many colours, so that each house seemed to be covered by the spreading wings of some gigantic and gorgeous bird.

Who acts: arrival, pillars, house, spreading wings · What happens: marvell, look, gleam, paint, seem, cover · To what, where: bronze, many colours

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrival, pillars, house, spreading wings), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marvelled	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marvelled	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 marvelled	aux
4	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 marvelled	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 city	amod
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pillars	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 pillars	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pillars	nmod:poss
14	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looking	obl
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 gleaming	mark
16	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 pillars	acl
17	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gleaming	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 roofs	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 roofs	det
20	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bronze	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 painted	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 painted	aux:pass
23	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 bronze	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 colours	case
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 colours	amod
26	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 painted	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seemed	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 seemed	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 house	det
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seemed	nsubj
32	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 marvelled	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	35 covered	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 covered	aux:pass
35	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 seemed	xcomp
36	by	by	ADP	_	39 wings	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wings	det
38	spreading	spreading	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wings	compound
39	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 covered	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	45 bird	case
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	45 bird	det
42	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 bird	amod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 gorgeous	cc
44	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 gigantic	conj
45	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wings	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 marvelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marvell	may · perfect	arrival				tree rules
2	look	gerund	arrival not said here			with city's pillars; on the bright city	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on city=Theme
3	gleam	gerund	city's pillars not said here	bronze and the roofs			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bronze=Theme
4	paint	past · passive		bronze and the roofs	many colours		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in colour=Destination
5	seem	past	each house				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	cover	to-infinitive · passive	the spreading wings of some gigantic bird				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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