Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 5

But when we return the memory is quickly clouded, and we seem to have had a dream or seen a vision, although we have verily been in Faery.

Who acts: we · What happens: return, cloud, seem, have, see, be · To what, where: memory, dream, vision, Faery

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	_	9 clouded	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 return	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 return	nsubj
4	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 clouded	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 memory	det
6	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 return	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 clouded	aux:pass
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 clouded	advmod
9	clouded	cloud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seem	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seem	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 seem	nsubj
13	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 clouded	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 had	mark
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	aux
16	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 seem	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dream	det
18	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 seen	cc
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 had	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 vision	det
22	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seen	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Faery	punct
24	although	although	SCONJ	_	30 Faery	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 Faery	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 Faery	aux
27	verily	verily	ADV	_	30 Faery	advmod
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 Faery	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 Faery	case
30	Faery	Faery	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 seen	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 clouded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	present	we	the memory			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme
2	cloud	present · passive				quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
3	seem	present	we				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	have	to-infinitive · perfect	we not said here	a dream			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
5	see	participle	we not said here	a vision			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus
6	is	present · perfect	we		Faery	verily property	tree rules

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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