Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11

And that thought was delight and anguish to him: delight because of such sweet prospect, anguish because it was not yet realised, and might not be.

Who acts: that, delight · What happens: think, be, anguish, not realise, not be · To what, where: delight, Chief · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that, delight), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 thought	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delight	cop
5	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 anguish	cc
7	anguish	anguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 anguish	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 delight	punct
11	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 anguish	nsubj
12	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	16 prospect	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 because	fixed
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 prospect	amod
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 prospect	amod
16	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 delight	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 anguish	punct
18	anguish	anguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 realised	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 realised	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 realised	aux:pass
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 realised	advmod
23	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 realised	advmod
24	realised	realise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 anguish	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 be	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 be	cc
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 be	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 be	advmod
29	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 anguish	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	that				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a	past		delight			tree rules
3	anguish	infinitive	that not said here		Chief		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	anguish	infinitive	delight because such sweet prospect				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not realise	past · passive		delight		yet	tree rules
6	not be	might	delight because such sweet prospect not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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