Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 17

And the palaces themselves, mellow with red oak, polished within and without by the wear and the care of a thousand years, and carved with the patient skill of unending generations of the most famous artists of the most artistic country of the western world, would have given him much to marvel at also.

Who acts: palaces, thousand years · What happens: mellow, polish, carve, give, marvel, care · To what, where: red oak, arrival

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 (palaces, thousand years), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 mellow	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palaces	det
3	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mellow	nsubj
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 palaces	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 palaces	punct
6	mellow	mellow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 oak	case
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 oak	amod
9	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mellow	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 polished	punct
11	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 oak	acl
12	within	within	ADP	_	17 wear	case
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 without	cc
14	without	without	ADP	_	12 within	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 wear	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wear	det
17	wear	wear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 polished	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 care	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 care	det
20	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wear	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 years	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thousand	det
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 years	nummod
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 care	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 carved	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 carved	cc
27	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mellow	parataxis
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 skill	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 skill	det
30	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 skill	amod
31	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carved	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 generations	case
33	unending	unending	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 generations	compound
34	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 skill	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	39 artists	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 artists	det
37	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	38 famous	advmod
38	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 artists	amod
39	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 generations	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	44 country	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 country	det
42	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	43 artistic	advmod
43	artistic	artistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 country	amod
44	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 artists	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 world	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 world	det
47	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 world	amod
48	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 country	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 given	punct
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 given	aux
51	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 given	aux
52	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 carved	conj
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 given	iobj
54	much	much	ADV	_	52 given	advmod
55	to	to	PART	_	56 marvel	mark
56	marvel	marvel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 given	advcl
57	at	at	ADP	_	58 also	case
58	also	also	ADV	_	56 marvel	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mellow	present	the palaces roofs			with red oak	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with oak=Instrument
2	polish	participle		red oak not said here		within the wear and the care of thousand years	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	carve	participle				with the patient skill of unending generations of the famous artists of the artistic country of the western world	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	would · perfect			arrival		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	marvel	to-infinitive					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	care		thousand years				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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