Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11

For the dead queen had been so lovely that Conn could not forget her; she had been so kind at every moment that he could not but miss her at every moment; but it was in the Council Chamber and the Judgement Hall that he most pondered her memory.

Who acts: Conn, sun, cairn, keen · What happens: be, not forget, not be, miss, ponder · To what, where: sun, Council Chamber, memory

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, sun, cairn, keen), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 queen	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 queen	amod
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lovely	obl
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lovely	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 lovely	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 lovely	advmod
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 forget	mark
10	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 forget	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 forget	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 forget	advmod
13	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lovely	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forget	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 kind	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kind	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 kind	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 kind	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 kind	advmod
20	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lovely	parataxis
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 moment	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 moment	det
23	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kind	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 could	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 could	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 kind	advcl
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 kind	advmod
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 miss	cc
29	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 kind	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 miss	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 moment	case
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 moment	det
33	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 miss	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 Chamber	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 Chamber	cc
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 Chamber	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 Chamber	cop
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 Chamber	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Chamber	det
40	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Chamber	compound
41	Chamber	Chamber	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lovely	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 Hall	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Hall	det
44	Judgement	Judgement	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Hall	compound
45	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Chamber	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 pondered	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 pondered	nsubj
48	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	49 pondered	advmod
49	pondered	ponder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lovely	advcl
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 memory	nmod:poss
51	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 pondered	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lovely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect					for the dead queen; lovely property	tree rules
2	not forget	could	Conn	sun				tree rules
3	not is	past · perfect	sun			moment	kind property	tree rules
4	miss	infinitive	sun not said here	sun		moment		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	is	past	cairn		the Council Chamber and the Judgement Hall			tree rules
6	ponder	past	keen	sun's memory				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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