Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 4

It could be overwhelmed and merged in space, so that consciousness would be transferred or dissipated, and one might sleep standing; for the mind fears loneliness more than all else, and will escape to the moon rather than be driven inwards on its own being.

Who acts: one, mind · What happens: overwhelm, merge, transfer, dissipate, sleep, stand · To what, where: mind, space, consciousness, loneliness, moon, own

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 (one, mind), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 overwhelmed	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 overwhelmed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 overwhelmed	aux:pass
4	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 merged	cc
6	merged	merge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 overwhelmed	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 space	case
8	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 merged	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 transferred	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 transferred	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	consciousness	consciousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 transferred	nsubj:pass
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 transferred	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 transferred	aux:pass
15	transferred	transfer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 overwhelmed	parataxis
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 dissipated	cc
17	dissipated	dissipate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 transferred	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sleep	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sleep	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 sleep	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sleep	aux
22	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 overwhelmed	conj
23	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 sleep	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 fears	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 fears	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mind	det
27	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fears	nsubj
28	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 overwhelmed	parataxis
29	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fears	obj
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 fears	obj
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 more	obl
33	else	else	ADV	_	32 all	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 escape	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 escape	cc
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 escape	aux
37	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fears	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 moon	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 moon	det
40	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 escape	obl
41	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	44 driven	cc
42	than	than	ADP	_	41 rather	fixed
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 driven	aux:pass
44	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 escape	conj
45	inwards	inwards	ADV	_	44 driven	advmod
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 own	case
47	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 own	nmod:poss
48	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 driven	obl
49	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 escape	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 overwhelmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overwhelm	could · passive		mind			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	merge	participle			space		vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	transfer	would · passive		consciousness			vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
4	dissipate	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	sleep	might	one				tree rules
6	stand	gerund	one not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fear	present	the mind	loneliness			tree rules
8	escape	future	the mind not said here		the moon		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to moon=Initial_Location
9	drive	infinitive · passive	the mind not said here		mind's own	inwards property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»

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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