Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 21

His pipe had been played and his timpan, all who heard that music should be asleep, and yet his fire was caught in full course and was quenched.

Who acts: music, Fire · What happens: play, hear, be, catch, quench, fire · To what, where: pipe, fire, full course

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 (music, Fire), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 pipe	nmod:poss
2	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 played	aux:pass
5	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 timpan	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 timpan	nmod:poss
8	timpan	timpan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 heard	advmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 asleep	mark
14	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asleep	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 asleep	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 asleep	cop
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heard	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caught	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 caught	cc
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 caught	advmod
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fire	nmod:poss
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caught	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 caught	aux:pass
24	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 heard	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 course	case
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 course	amod
27	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caught	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 quenched	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 quenched	aux:pass
30	quenched	quench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 caught	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · perfect · passive		Fire's pipe				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	hear	past						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	should	music				asleep property	tree rules
4	catch	past · passive		Fire's fire	full course	yet		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	quench	past · passive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
6	fire		Fire					nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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