Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 28

The people who superintended her departure said mournfully that when she was gone there would be no more beauty left in their world.

Who acts: people, One · What happens: superintend, say, go, be, leave, depart · To what, where: departure, One, more beauty, world · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, One), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 superintended	nsubj
4	superintended	superintend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 people	acl:relcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 departure	nmod:poss
6	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 superintended	obj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
9	that	that	ADV	_	13 gone	advmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 gone	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux:pass
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	ccomp
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 gone	advmod
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 beauty	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 beauty	cop
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 beauty	amod
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	obl
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 beauty	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 world	nmod:poss
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	superintend	past	the people	One's departure			vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent departure=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the people			mournfully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	past · passive		One	there	that property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is a	would		more beauty			tree rules
5	leave	participle		more beauty not said here		in people's world result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in world=Result
6	depart		One				nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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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