Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 3

But he got no news from any one, until he reached an island that was fragrant with wild apples, gay with flowers, and joyous with the song of birds and the deep mellow drumming of the bees.

Who acts: Colpa, island, deep mellow, birds · What happens: get, reach, be, drum, sing · To what, where: news, island

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Colpa, island, deep mellow, birds), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 got	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 news	det
5	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 one	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reached	punct
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 reached	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reached	nsubj
12	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 island	det
14	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reached	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fragrant	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fragrant	cop
17	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 island	acl:relcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 apples	case
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 apples	amod
20	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fragrant	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gay	punct
22	gay	gay	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 apples	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 flowers	case
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gay	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 joyous	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 joyous	cc
27	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 song	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 song	det
30	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 joyous	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 birds	case
32	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 song	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 mellow	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 mellow	det
35	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 mellow	amod
36	mellow	mellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 song	conj
37	drumming	drum	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 mellow	acl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 bees	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bees	det
40	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 drumming	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	Colpa	no news	from any one	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent news=Theme from one=Source
2	reach	past	Colpa	a island		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=Theme
3	is	past	a island		with wild apples and gay with flowers; fragrant property	tree rules
4	drum	gerund	the deep mellow not said here		of the bees	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	sing		birds			nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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