Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 61

He had loved to hear the cuckoo calling in the spring from the tree that is highest in the hedge, or the blackbird’s jolly whistle in an autumn bush, or the thin, sweet enchantment that comes to the mind when a lark thrills out of sight in the air and the hushed fields listen to the song.

Who acts: Saeve, cuckoo, that, thin sweet enchantment, lark, hushed fields · What happens: love, hear, call, be, come, thrill · To what, where: jolly whistle, cuckoo, tree, mind, sight, autumn bush · 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 (Saeve, cuckoo, that, thin sweet enchantment), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loved	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loved	aux
3	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 loved	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cuckoo	det
7	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
8	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hear	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 spring	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spring	det
11	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calling	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 highest	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 highest	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 highest	cop
17	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 calling	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hedge	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hedge	det
20	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 highest	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 whistle	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 whistle	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 blackbird	det
24	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whistle	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 blackbird	case
26	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 whistle	amod
27	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 bush	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bush	det
30	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bush	compound
31	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whistle	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 enchantment	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 enchantment	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 enchantment	det
35	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 enchantment	amod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thin	punct
37	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 enchantment	amod
38	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whistle	conj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 comes	nsubj
40	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 enchantment	acl:relcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 mind	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 mind	det
43	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 comes	obl
44	when	when	SCONJ	_	47 thrills	mark
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 lark	det
46	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 thrills	nsubj
47	thrills	thrill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 comes	advcl
48	out	out	ADP	_	50 sight	case
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 sight	case
50	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 thrills	obl
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 air	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 air	det
53	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 thrills	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 listen	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 fields	det
56	hushed	hush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 fields	amod
57	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 listen	nsubj
58	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 thrills	conj
59	to	to	ADP	_	61 song	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 song	det
61	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 listen	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past · perfect	Saeve	the blackbird's jolly whistle in a autumn bush or the thin sweet enchantment				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	Saeve not said here	the cuckoo				tree rules
3	call	gerund	the cuckoo not said here			spring		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	that		the tree		in the hedge; high property	tree rules
5	come	present	the thin sweet enchantment		the mind			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mind=Initial_Location
6	thrill	present	a lark		sight		in the air	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	hush	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	listen	present	the hushed fields				to the song	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme
9	whistle		the blackbird		a autumn bush			nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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