Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 18

It must have seemed like a city of dream, a city to catch the heart, when, coming over the great plain, Fionn saw Tara of the Kings held on its hill as in a hand to gather all the gold of the falling sun, and to restore a brightness as mellow and tender as that universal largess.

Who acts: It, Fionn, Tara · What happens: seem, catch, come, see, hold, gather · To what, where: heart, great plain, hill, gold, brightness · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (It, Fionn, Tara), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	aux
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 dream	case
9	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 city	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 city	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 city	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 catch	mark
14	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 city	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heart	det
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 catch	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 coming	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 coming	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 coming	punct
20	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 seemed	xcomp
21	over	over	ADP	_	24 plain	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 plain	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 plain	amod
24	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coming	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
26	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	parataxis
28	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 held	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Kings	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Kings	det
31	Kings	King	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 Tara	nmod
32	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	ccomp
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 hill	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hill	nmod:poss
35	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 held	obl
36	as	as	ADP	_	39 hand	case
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 hand	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hand	det
39	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 held	obl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 gather	mark
41	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 held	advcl
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 gold	det:predet
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 gold	det
44	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gather	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 sun	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sun	det
47	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 sun	amod
48	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 gold	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 restore	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 restore	cc
51	to	to	PART	_	52 restore	mark
52	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 saw	conj
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 brightness	det
54	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 restore	obj
55	as	as	ADP	_	56 mellow	case
56	mellow	mellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 restore	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 tender	cc
58	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 mellow	conj
59	as	as	ADP	_	62 largess	case
60	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	62 largess	det
61	universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 largess	amod
62	largess	largess	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 tender	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	must	It			like a city of dream and a city	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	catch	to-infinitive		the heart			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
3	come	gerund			the great plain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over plain=Initial_Location
4	see	past	Fionn				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	hold	past	Tara of the Kings		city's hill	as a hand	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location
6	gather	to-infinitive	Tara of the Kings not said here	all gold of the falling sun			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
7	fall	gerund					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	restore	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here	a brightness		as mellow	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent brightness=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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