Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 3

The noise of the banquet was not now audible to Fionn--it is possible, however, that there was a shamefaced silence in the great hall--and the lights of the city were hidden by the successive great ramparts.

Who acts: noise, shamefaced silence, successive great ramparts, banquet · What happens: not be, be, shamefac, hide, noise, light · To what, where: Fionn, lights, city

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, shamefaced silence, successive great ramparts, banquet), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 noise	det
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 audible	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 banquet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 banquet	det
5	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noise	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 audible	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 audible	advmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 audible	advmod
9	audible	audible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Fionn	case
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 audible	obl
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 possible	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 possible	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 possible	cop
15	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 audible	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 however	punct
17	however	however	ADV	_	15 possible	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 was	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 was	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 audible	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 silence	det
23	shamefaced	shamefac	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 silence	amod
24	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 was	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 hall	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hall	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hall	amod
28	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 silence	nmod
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 hidden	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hidden	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lights	det
32	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hidden	nsubj:pass
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 city	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 city	det
35	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lights	nmod
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hidden	aux:pass
37	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 audible	conj
38	by	by	ADP	_	42 ramparts	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ramparts	det
40	successive	successive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 ramparts	amod
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 ramparts	amod
42	ramparts	rampart	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hidden	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 audible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the noise of the banquet		Fionn		now	audible property	tree rules
2	is	present	noise					however, possible property	tree rules
3	be	past	a shamefaced silence in the great hall			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shamefac	participle							tree rules
5	hide	past · passive	the successive great ramparts	the lights of the city					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
6	noise		the banquet						nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent
7	light			the city					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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