Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 13

With what ease my lovely note went lilting.

Who acts: you, lovely note, my · What happens: ease, go, lilt, note

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lovely note, my), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 ease	obl
3	ease	ease	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 note	nmod:poss
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 note	amod
6	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ease	ccomp
8	lilting	lilt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 went	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ease	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	ease	imperative	you not said here	tree rules
2	go	past	my lovely note	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lilt	gerund	my lovely note not said here	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	note		my	nom note «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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