Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 23

It was a wonderful sight and a great deed this binding of the Fianna, and the three sisters laughed with a joy that was terrible to hear and was almost death to see.

Who acts: strength, three sisters, joy · What happens: be, laugh, hear, see · To what, where: wonderful sight, death

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 (strength, three sisters, joy), 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	5 sight	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sight	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sight	det
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sight	amod
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 deed	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 deed	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deed	amod
9	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sight	conj
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 binding	det
11	binding	binding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deed	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Fianna	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fianna	det
14	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 binding	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laughed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 laughed	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sisters	det
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sisters	nummod
19	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 laughed	nsubj
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sight	parataxis
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 joy	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 joy	det
23	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laughed	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 terrible	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 terrible	cop
26	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 joy	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hear	mark
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 terrible	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 death	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 death	cop
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 death	advmod
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laughed	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 death	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	strength	a wonderful sight and a great deed		tree rules
2	laugh	past	the three sisters		with a joy	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	a joy		terrible property	tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive	a joy not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	the three sisters not said here	death	almost property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	the three sisters not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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