Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 7

A change came then, for the clouds had also been moving and the moon at last was sensed behind them--not as a radiance, but as a percolation of light, a gleam that was strained through matter after matter and was less than the very wraith or remembrance of itself; a thing seen so narrowly, so sparsely, that the eye could doubt if it was or was not seeing, and might conceive that its own memory was re-creating that which was still absent.

Who acts: change, clouds, eye, own memory, light · What happens: come, move, sense, strain, be, see · To what, where: last, gleam, matter, thing, change

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 (change, clouds, eye, own memory), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 change	det
2	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 moving	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 moving	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clouds	det
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 moving	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 moving	aux
10	also	also	ADV	_	12 moving	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 moving	aux
12	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 moon	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moon	det
15	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 moving	conj
16	at	at	SCONJ	_	19 sensed	mark
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sensed	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sensed	aux:pass
19	sensed	sense	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 moving	advcl
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sensed	obl
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 radiance	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 radiance	advmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 radiance	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 radiance	det
26	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sensed	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 percolation	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 percolation	cc
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 percolation	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 percolation	det
31	percolation	percolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	parataxis
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 light	case
33	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 percolation	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gleam	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 gleam	det
36	gleam	gleam	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 percolation	conj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 strained	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 strained	aux:pass
39	strained	strain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 gleam	acl:relcl
40	through	through	ADP	_	41 matter	case
41	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 strained	obl
42	after	after	ADP	_	43 matter	case
43	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 strained	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 less	cc
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 less	cop
46	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 strained	conj
47	than	than	ADP	_	50 wraith	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 wraith	det
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 wraith	advmod
50	wraith	wraith	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 less	obl
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 remembrance	cc
52	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 wraith	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 itself	case
54	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	52 remembrance	nmod
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 thing	punct
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 thing	det
57	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 percolation	conj
58	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 thing	acl
59	so	so	ADV	_	60 narrowly	advmod
60	narrowly	narrowly	ADV	_	58 seen	advmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 sparsely	punct
62	so	so	ADV	_	63 sparsely	advmod
63	sparsely	sparsely	ADV	_	58 seen	advmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 doubt	punct
65	that	that	SCONJ	_	69 doubt	mark
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 eye	det
67	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 doubt	nsubj
68	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 doubt	aux
69	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 seen	parataxis
70	if	if	SCONJ	_	76 seeing	mark
71	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	76 seeing	nsubj
72	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	76 seeing	aux
73	or	or	CCONJ	_	76 seeing	cc
74	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	76 seeing	aux
75	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	76 seeing	advmod
76	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	69 doubt	advcl
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 conceive	punct
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	80 conceive	cc
79	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	80 conceive	aux
80	conceive	conceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 doubt	conj
81	that	that	SCONJ	_	86 re-creating	mark
82	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	84 memory	nmod:poss
83	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	84 memory	amod
84	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 re-creating	nsubj
85	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	86 re-creating	aux
86	re-creating	re-creat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	80 conceive	advcl
87	that	that	SCONJ	_	91 absent	mark
88	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	91 absent	nsubj
89	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	91 absent	cop
90	still	still	ADV	_	91 absent	advmod
91	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	86 re-creating	ccomp
92	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a change			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	past · perfect · progressive	the clouds					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	sense	past · passive		last			behind clouds = cloud	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	strain	past · passive		a gleam	matter	after matter		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
5	is	past					than the wraith or remembrance of change; less property	tree rules
6	see	participle		a thing not said here			narrowly, sparsely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	doubt	could	the eye					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	not see a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	change					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	conceive	might	the eye not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
10	re-creat	past · progressive	change's own memory					tree rules
11	is	past				still	absent property	tree rules
12	percolate		light					nom percolation «process intransitive»: of=agent
13	remember			change				nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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