Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 19

A whole new life had come on this boy, a life that was instant and memorable, so that his present memories blended into and obscured the past, and he could not be quite sure if that which he told of had happened in this world or in the world he had left.

Who acts: whole new life, that, life · What happens: come, be, blend, obscure, not be, tell · To what, where: present memories, past, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole new life, that, life), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 life	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 life	amod
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 life	amod
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 boy	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 life	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 life	det
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 instant	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 instant	cop
15	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 life	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 memorable	cc
17	memorable	memorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 instant	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 memories	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	_	23 memories	case
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 memories	nmod:poss
22	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 memories	amod
23	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl
24	blended	blend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 memories	acl
25	into	into	ADP	_	24 blended	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 obscured	cc
27	obscured	obscure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 past	det
29	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 obscured	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sure	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sure	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sure	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 sure	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 sure	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 sure	cop
36	quite	quite	ADV	_	37 sure	advmod
37	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 come	conj
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 which	mark
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 which	nsubj
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 told	nsubj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 told	nsubj
42	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sure	parataxis
43	of	of	SCONJ	_	45 happened	mark
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 happened	aux
45	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 told	ccomp
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 world	case
47	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 world	det
48	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 happened	obl
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 world	cc
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 world	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 world	det
52	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 world	conj
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 left	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 left	aux
55	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 world	acl:relcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	a whole new life			on this boy and a life; so life's present memories	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on boy=Location
2	is	past	that			instant property	tree rules
3	be		that not said here				tree rules
4	blend	participle		life's present memories not said here			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	obscure	past	a whole new life not said here	the past			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent past=Patient
6	not is	could	life			sure property	tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	past					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	happen	past · perfect			this world or the world		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location
9	leave	past · perfect	life	this world or the world not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=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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