Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 17

His back was turned to it, and long before he saw it he smelled it and wondered; for he had been sitting as in a daze, musing on a change that had seemed to come in his changeless world; and for a long time he could not tell what that was which made a difference on the salt-whipped wind or why he should be excited.

Who acts: sun, change, musing, that · What happens: turn, see, smell, wonder, sit, muse · To what, where: back, succession, changeless world, difference, whipped wind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, change, musing, that), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 back	nmod:poss
2	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	aux:pass
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 saw	advmod
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 saw	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 smelled	nsubj
15	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 smelled	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wondered	cc
18	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 smelled	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sitting	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 sitting	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sitting	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 turned	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 daze	case
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 daze	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 daze	det
28	daze	daze	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 musing	punct
30	musing	muse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 seemed	csubj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 change	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 change	det
33	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 musing	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 change	acl:relcl
36	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 come	mark
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 seemed	xcomp
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 world	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 world	nmod:poss
41	changeless	changeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 world	amod
42	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 come	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 tell	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 tell	cc
45	for	for	ADP	_	48 time	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 time	det
47	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 time	amod
48	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tell	obl
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 tell	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 tell	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 tell	advmod
52	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turned	parataxis
53	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 made	obl
54	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 made	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 which	cop
56	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 that	nmod
57	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 tell	ccomp
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 difference	det
59	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 made	obj
60	on	on	ADP	_	65 wind	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 wind	det
62	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 whipped	compound
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 salt	punct
64	whipped	whip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 wind	amod
65	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 made	obl
66	or	or	CCONJ	_	71 excited	cc
67	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	71 excited	advmod
68	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 excited	nsubj
69	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 excited	aux
70	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	71 excited	cop
71	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 made	conj
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		sun's back	succession			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to it=Trajectory
2	see	past	sun	back			long property	tree rules
3	smell	past	sun	back				vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	wonder speech: ask	past	sun not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	sit	past · perfect · progressive	sun				as a daze	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	muse	gerund					on a change	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on change=Topic
7	have	past	a change					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	seem	past	musing					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
9	come	to-infinitive	musing not said here		sun's changeless world			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location
10	not tell speech: assert	could	sun			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	is a	past						tree rules
12	make	past	that	a difference	the whipped wind			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product
13	whip	participle						vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
14	is	should	sun				excited property	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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