Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 1

IT was so early that not even a bird was yet awake, and the dull grey light that came from the atmosphere enlarged and made indistinct all that one looked at, and swathed all things in a cold and livid gloom.

Who acts: IT, bird, dull grey light, one · What happens: be, come, enlarge, make, look, swathe · To what, where: atmosphere, things

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IT, bird, dull grey light, one), 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	IT	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 early	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 early	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 early	advmod
4	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 awake	mark
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 bird	advmod
7	even	even	ADV	_	9 bird	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 awake	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 awake	cop
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 awake	advmod
12	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 early	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 enlarged	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 enlarged	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 light	det
16	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 light	amod
17	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 light	amod
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 enlarged	nsubj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 light	acl:relcl
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 atmosphere	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 atmosphere	det
23	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	enlarged	enlarge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 early	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 enlarged	conj
27	indistinct	indistinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 made	xcomp
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 one	det:predet
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looked	nsubj
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 made	parataxis
32	at	at	ADP	_	31 looked	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 swathed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 swathed	cc
35	swathed	swathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 enlarged	conj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 things	det
37	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 swathed	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	43 gloom	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 gloom	det
40	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 gloom	amod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 livid	cc
42	livid	livid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 cold	conj
43	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 swathed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 early	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	IT				early property	tree rules
2	is	past	a bird			yet	awake property	tree rules
3	come	past	the dull grey light		the atmosphere			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from atmosphere=Initial_Location
4	enlarge	past	the dull grey light					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	make	past	the dull grey light not said here				indistinct property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	look	past	all one					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	swathe	past	the dull grey light not said here	all things			in a cold gloom	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Destination in gloom=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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