Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 2
Even the wind had ceased, and there seemed to be nothing in the world but the darkness and himself.
What happens: cease, seem, be · To what, where: wind, nothing, world
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: 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 ceased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ceased | aux |
| 5 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | cc |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 seemed | advmod |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ceased | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 nothing | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 nothing | cop |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | nmod |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 darkness | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 darkness | det |
| 18 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 himself | cc |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 seemed | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past · perfect · passive | the wind | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | there | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | nothing | the world | 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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