Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 6
There was no note in its orchestra that he had not brooded on and become, which becoming is magic.
Who acts: note, wind, becoming · What happens: be, not brood on, become · To what, where: orchestra
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 (note, wind, becoming), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 note | det |
| 4 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 orchestra | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 orchestra | nmod:poss |
| 7 | orchestra | orchestra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 brooded | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brooded | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brooded | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 brooded | advmod |
| 12 | brooded | brood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 was | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 brooded | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 become | cc |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 brooded | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 magic | punct |
| 17 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 18 becoming | det |
| 18 | becoming | becoming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 magic | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 magic | cop |
| 20 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brooded | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no note | note's orchestra; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in orchestra=Location | ||||
| 2 | not brood on | past · perfect | wind | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | become | infinitive | wind not said here | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | which becoming | magic property | tree rules |
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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