Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 13

So sweet it was that the sense strained to it, and having reached must follow drowsily in its wake, and would merge in it, and could not return again to its own place until that strange harmony was finished and the ear restored to freedom.

Who acts: darkness, having, ear · What happens: be, strain, have, reach, follow, merge · To what, where: sweet sense, darkness, wake, strange harmony, freedom

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 (darkness, having, ear), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 sweet	advmod
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sense	amod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sense	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sense	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 sense	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sense	det
7	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	strained	strain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sense	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 strained	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 follow	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 follow	cc
13	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 follow	csubj
14	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 having	xcomp
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 follow	aux
16	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sense	parataxis
17	drowsily	drowsily	ADV	_	20 wake	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 wake	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wake	nmod:poss
20	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 follow	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 merge	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 merge	cc
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 merge	aux
24	merge	merge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 follow	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 merge	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 return	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 return	cc
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 return	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 return	advmod
31	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 merge	parataxis
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 return	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 place	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 place	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 place	amod
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 return	obl
37	until	until	SCONJ	_	42 finished	mark
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 harmony	det
39	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 harmony	amod
40	harmony	harmony	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 finished	nsubj:pass
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 finished	aux:pass
42	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 return	advcl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 restored	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ear	det
45	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 restored	nsubj
46	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 finished	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 freedom	case
48	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 restored	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sense	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	darkness	the sweet sense					tree rules
2	strain	participle		the sweet sense not said here	darkness				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
3	have	gerund							tree rules
4	reach	participle							vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	follow	must	having	darkness's wake					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wake=Theme
6	merge	would	having not said here			darkness			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	not return	could					again	to darkness's own place result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
8	finish	past · passive		that strange harmony					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
9	restore	past	the ear		freedom				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to freedom=Recipient

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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