Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 16

Far as the eye could reach, and in whatever direction, there were trees; and from these there came the unceasing singing of birds.

Who acts: eye, trees, these · What happens: reach, be, come, sing · To what, where: direction, unceasing singing, birds

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 (eye, trees, these), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 reach	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 reach	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eye	det
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reach	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 reach	aux
6	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 were	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 were	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 direction	case
10	whatever	whatever	ADV	PronType=Int	11 direction	advmod
11	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 were	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 direction	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 were	expl
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reach	conj
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 were	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 these	case
19	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 came	nsubj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 these	advmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reach	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 singing	det
23	unceasing	unceasing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 singing	amod
24	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 birds	case
26	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 singing	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	could	the eye			far property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	trees		direction; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location
3	come	past	these	the unceasing singing of birds			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location singing=Theme
4	sing			birds			nom singing «act transitive»: of=patient

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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