Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 31

He comes out of the Shi’ playing sweet, low music on a timpan and a pipe, and all who hear this music fall asleep.”

Who acts: Fionn, all, music · What happens: come out, play, hear, fall · To what, where: Shi, sweet low music, timpan, music

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 (Fionn, all, music), 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 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 Shi	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Shi	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Shi	det
6	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 playing	punct
8	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 comes	advcl
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 music	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sweet	punct
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 music	amod
12	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 playing	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 timpan	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 timpan	det
15	timpan	timpan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 playing	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pipe	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pipe	det
18	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 timpan	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hear	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hear	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 hear	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 all	nmod
23	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	conj
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 music	det
25	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hear	obj
26	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hear	xcomp
27	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fall	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	present	Fionn	the Shi			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient shi=Result
2	play	gerund	Fionn not said here	sweet low music	a timpan and a pipe		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme
3	hear	present	all	this music			tree rules
4	fall	infinitive	this music not said here			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: 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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