Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 36

But his mind was troubled, for he thought also, or he felt without thinking, that had the positions been changed he would have seen her at twice the distance.

Who acts: mind, Chief, that · What happens: be, think, feel, have, change, see · To what, where: positions, Goll

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, Chief, that), 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	_	5 troubled	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mind	nmod:poss
3	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 troubled	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 troubled	cop
5	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 troubled	parataxis
10	also	also	ADV	_	9 thought	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 felt	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 felt	nsubj
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	conj
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 thinking	mark
16	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 felt	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thinking	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 positions	det
21	positions	position	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 changed	nsubj:pass
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 changed	aux:pass
23	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 had	ccomp
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seen	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 seen	aux
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 changed	ccomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seen	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 distance	case
30	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 distance	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 distance	det
32	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 troubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Chief's mind		troubled property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Chief			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	past	Chief			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	gerund	Chief not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	that			tree rules
6	change	participle · passive		the positions		tree rules
7	see	would · perfect	Chief	Goll	at the distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
8	mind		Chief			nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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