Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 5

But darkness was not a thing to terrify him, bred in the nightness of a wood and the very fosterling of gloom; nor could the wind afflict his ear or his heart.

Who acts: darkness, wind · What happens: not be, terrify, breed, afflict · To what, where: thing, silence, nightness, ear

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 (darkness, wind), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 thing	cc
2	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 thing	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 terrify	mark
8	terrify	terrify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 terrify	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bred	punct
11	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thing	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 nightness	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nightness	det
14	nightness	nightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bred	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nightness	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fosterling	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fosterling	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 fosterling	advmod
21	fosterling	fosterling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wood	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 gloom	case
23	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fosterling	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 afflict	punct
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	29 afflict	cc
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 afflict	aux
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wind	det
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 afflict	nsubj
29	afflict	afflict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	parataxis
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ear	nmod:poss
31	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 afflict	obj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 heart	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 heart	nmod:poss
34	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ear	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not is a	past	darkness	a thing		tree rules
2	terrify	to-infinitive		silence		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	breed	participle		a thing not said here	the nightness of a wood and the fosterling of gloom	tree rules
4	afflict	could	the wind	wind's ear or wind's heart		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ear=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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