Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 10

He spoke in silence, and when he had finished he listened to the same silence, but it was now deep, ominous, agonized.

Who acts: King, defence · What happens: speak, finish, listen, be, agonize · To what, where: silence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, defence), 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	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 silence	case
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finished	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 finished	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 finished	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 finished	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 finished	aux
10	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 spoke	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 listened	nsubj
12	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 silence	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 silence	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 silence	amod
16	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 listened	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 deep	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 deep	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 deep	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 deep	cop
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 deep	advmod
22	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spoke	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ominous	punct
24	ominous	ominous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 deep	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 agonized	punct
26	agonized	agonize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 deep	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	King	silence			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	finish	past · perfect	King				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	listen	past	King			to the same silence	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to silence=Theme
4	is	past	defence		now	deep property	tree rules
5	be		defence not said here				tree rules
6	agonize	participle	defence not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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