Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 19

They did not tongue it, nor bell it, but they added silence to silence and speed to speed, until the lean grey bodies were one pucker and lashing of movement.

Who acts: companions, Heo’lan, lean grey bodies · What happens: do, not tongue, bell, add, speed, be · To what, where: silence, one pucker

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, Heo’lan, lean grey bodies), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tongue	advmod
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tongue	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bell	punct
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 bell	cc
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bell	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 added	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 added	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 added	nsubj
13	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
14	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 added	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 silence	mark
16	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 silence	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 speed	cc
18	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 silence	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 speed	mark
20	speed	speed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 speed	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pucker	punct
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 pucker	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bodies	det
24	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bodies	amod
25	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bodies	amod
26	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pucker	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pucker	cop
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 pucker	nummod
29	pucker	pucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 added	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lashing	cc
31	lashing	lashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pucker	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 movement	case
33	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pucker	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	companions = companion			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not tongue		Heo’lan = heo'lan			tree rules
3	bell		Heo’lan = heo'lan			tree rules
4	add speech: assert	past	companions = companion	silence and silence and speed		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Patient
5	speed	to-infinitive	companions = companion not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past	the lean grey bodies	one pucker and lashing	of movement	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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