Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 12

Then from the darkness there came another sound; a low, sweet sound; thrillingly joyous, thrillingly low; so low the ear could scarcely note it, so sweet the ear wished to catch nothing else and would strive to hear it rather than all sounds that may be heard by man: the music of another world! the unearthly, dear melody of the Shi’!

Who acts: ear, man · What happens: come, note, wish, catch, strive, hear · To what, where: sound, darkness, nothing, sounds

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ear, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 darkness	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 darkness	det
4	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 darkness	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 sound	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sound	det
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sound	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 low	punct
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sound	amod
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 joyous	punct
16	thrillingly	thrillingly	ADV	_	17 joyous	advmod
17	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sound	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 low	punct
19	thrillingly	thrillingly	ADV	_	20 low	advmod
20	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 joyous	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 low	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 low	advmod
23	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ear	det
25	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 note	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 note	aux
27	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	28 note	advmod
28	note	note	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 low	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 note	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sweet	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 sweet	advmod
32	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ear	det
34	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wished	nsubj
35	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sweet	ccomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 catch	mark
37	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 wished	xcomp
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 catch	obj
39	else	else	ADV	_	38 nothing	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 strive	cc
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 strive	aux
42	strive	strive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 catch	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 hear	mark
44	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 strive	xcomp
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 hear	obj
46	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	49 sounds	cc
47	than	than	ADP	_	46 rather	fixed
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 sounds	det
49	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 hear	obj
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 heard	nsubj:pass
51	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 heard	aux
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 heard	aux:pass
53	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 sounds	acl:relcl
54	by	by	ADP	_	55 man	case
55	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 heard	obl
56	:	:	PUNCT	_	58 music	punct
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 music	det
58	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 world	case
60	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	61 world	det
61	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 music	nmod
62	!	!	PUNCT	_	67 melody	punct
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 melody	det
64	unearthly	unearthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 melody	amod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 unearthly	punct
66	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 melody	amod
67	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 music	appos
68	of	of	ADP	_	71 ’	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 ’	det
70	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	71 ’	compound
71	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 melody	nmod
72	!	!	PUNCT	_	67 melody	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		another sound	the darkness	then	a low sweet sound obl; the music of another world obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme
2	note	could	the ear	darkness			scarcely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	wish	past	the ear					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	the ear not said here	nothing				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
5	strive	would	the ear not said here					tree rules
6	hear	to-infinitive	the ear not said here	darkness				tree rules
7	hear	may · passive	man	all sounds				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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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