Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 17

Over all that land the sun shone warm and beautiful, so that to our sea-weary eyes, our wind-tormented ears, it seemed as if we were driving on Paradise.

Who acts: sun, it, we · What happens: shine, torment, seem, drive · To what, where: land, Paradise

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 (sun, it, 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	Over	over	ADP	_	4 land	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 land	det:predet
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shone	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shone	nsubj
7	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shone	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 beautiful	cc
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 warm	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eyes	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	19 eyes	case
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	to	to	ADP	_	12 so	fixed
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 weary	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 sea	punct
18	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eyes	amod
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shone	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ears	punct
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 ears	nmod:poss
22	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tormented	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 wind	punct
24	tormented	torment	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 ears	amod
25	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eyes	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shone	conj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 driving	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 driving	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 driving	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 driving	aux
33	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 seemed	xcomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 Paradise	case
35	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 driving	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun	all land	so our weary eyes and our tormented ears; warm property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Location
2	torment	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	seem	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	drive a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	we	Paradise		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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