Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 8

With what eagerness and anticipation he had gone there; the lover’s whistle that he used to give was known to every person in that Shi’, and he had been discussed by more than one of the delicate sweet ladies of Faery.

Who acts: eagerness, future, lover · What happens: go, use, give, know, discuss, whistle · To what, where: whistle, future

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 (eagerness, future, lover), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 anticipation	cc
5	anticipation	anticipation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eagerness	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gone	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 what	acl:relcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 gone	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 known	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lover	det
12	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 whistle	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 lover	case
14	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 known	nsubj:pass
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 used	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 used	nsubj
17	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 whistle	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 used	xcomp
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 known	aux:pass
21	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 what	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 person	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 person	det
24	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 known	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 Shi	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 Shi	det
27	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 person	nmod
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 person	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 discussed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 discussed	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 discussed	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 discussed	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 discussed	aux:pass
34	discussed	discuss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 known	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 one	case
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	38 one	advmod
37	than	than	ADP	_	36 more	fixed
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 discussed	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	43 ladies	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ladies	det
41	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 ladies	amod
42	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 ladies	amod
43	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 one	nmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 Faery	case
45	Faery	faery	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ladies	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	eagerness and anticipation		there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	past	future	the lover's whistle			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent that=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	give	to-infinitive	future not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	know	past · passive		the lover's whistle		to every person in that Shi	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
5	discuss speech: other	past · perfect · passive		future		by one of the delicate sweet ladies of Faery	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
6	whistle		the lover				nom whistle «event intransitive»: 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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