Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 16

Affronting all, conquering all, he came in time to Morgan’s dun, a place so lovely that after the miseries through which he had struggled he almost wept to see beauty again.

Who acts: Art · What happens: affront, conquer, come, struggle, weep, see · To what, where: all, beauty

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Art), 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	Affronting	affront	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Affronting	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 conquering	punct
4	conquering	conquer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Affronting	conj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 conquering	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Affronting	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 time	case
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 dun	case
12	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 dun	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Morgan	case
14	dun	dun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 place	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 place	det
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dun	appos
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 lovely	advmod
19	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 place	amod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 struggled	mark
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 miseries	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 miseries	det
23	miseries	misery	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 struggled	obl
24	through	through	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 struggled	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 struggled	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 struggled	aux
28	struggled	struggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 lovely	advcl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wept	nsubj
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	31 wept	advmod
31	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 struggled	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 wept	xcomp
34	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
35	again	again	ADV	_	33 see	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	affront	gerund	Art not said here	all			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus all=Experiencer
2	conquer	gerund	Art not said here	all			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient
3	come	past	Art		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	struggle	past · perfect	Art		after the miseries		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	weep	past	Art			almost property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	Art not said here	beauty	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus

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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