Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 5

The singers, the harpers, and jugglers submitted to that constraint, so that every person felt awkward and no one knew what should be done or what would happen, and from that doubt dulness came, with silence following on its heels.

Who acts: singers, one, silence · What happens: submit, feel, know, do, happen, come · To what, where: jugglers, doubt dulness, heels · 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 (singers, one, silence), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 singers	det
2	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 felt	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 harpers	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 harpers	det
5	harpers	harper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 singers	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 jugglers	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 jugglers	cc
8	jugglers	juggler	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 singers	conj
9	submitted	submit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 jugglers	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 constraint	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 constraint	det
12	constraint	constraint	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 submitted	obl:agent
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 felt	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 felt	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 person	det
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 felt	nsubj
18	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 felt	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knew	cc
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 felt	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 done	obj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 done	aux:pass
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 knew	ccomp
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 happen	cc
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 happen	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 happen	aux
31	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 done	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 came	cc
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 dulness	case
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 dulness	det
36	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dulness	compound
37	dulness	dulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 felt	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 silence	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 silence	case
41	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
42	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 silence	acl
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 heels	case
44	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 heels	nmod:poss
45	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 following	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	submit	participle		jugglers not said here			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past	the singers and the harpers and jugglers			awkward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	know	past	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	should · passive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
5	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	the singers and the harpers and jugglers not said here		that doubt dulness	with silence	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dulness=Initial_Location
7	follow	gerund	silence not said here		person's heels		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on heel=Location

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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