Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 2

But the law of life is change; nothing continues in the same way for any length of time; happiness must become unhappiness, and will be succeeded again by the joy it had displaced.

Who acts: law, change, happiness, joy · What happens: be, continue, become, succeed, displace · To what, where: change, same way, unhappiness, happiness

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (law, change, happiness, joy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 change	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 law	det
3	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 life	case
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 law	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 change	cop
7	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 continues	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 change	punct
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 continues	nsubj
10	continues	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 way	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 continues	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 length	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 length	det
17	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 time	case
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 length	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 become	punct
21	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 become	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 become	aux
23	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 continues	conj
24	unhappiness	unhappiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 become	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 succeeded	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 succeeded	cc
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 succeeded	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 succeeded	aux:pass
29	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 continues	conj
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 succeeded	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 joy	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 joy	det
33	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 succeeded	obl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 displaced	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 displaced	aux
36	displaced	displace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 joy	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 continues	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	the law of life	change			tree rules
2	continue	present	change		the same way for any length of time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	must	happiness	unhappiness			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	succeed	future · passive	the joy			again	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	displace	past · perfect · passive	the joy not said here	happiness			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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