Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 12

For she had also been wise, and lack-ing her guidance, all grave affairs seemed graver, shadowing each day and going with him to the pillow at night.

Who acts: sun, grave affairs · What happens: be, e, seem, shadow, go, guide · To what, where: guidance, pillow

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 (sun, grave affairs), 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	SCONJ	_	6 wise	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wise	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wise	aux
4	also	also	ADV	_	6 wise	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 wise	cop
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ing	cc
9	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ing	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 lack	punct
11	ing	e	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wise	parataxis
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 guidance	nmod:poss
13	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 affairs	det
16	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 affairs	amod
17	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 guidance	acl:relcl
19	graver	grave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 seemed	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shadowing	punct
21	shadowing	shadow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ing	conj
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shadowing	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 going	cc
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ing	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 going	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 pillow	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pillow	det
30	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 going	obl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 night	case
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 going	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	sun				wise property	tree rules
2	e	gerund		sun's guidance				tree rules
3	seem	past	all grave affairs	sun's guidance not said here			grave property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme guidance=Attribute
4	shadow	gerund				day		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	go	gerund			the pillow	night	with keen	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pillow=Initial_Location
6	guide		sun					nom guidance «communication transitive»: 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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