Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 4

It had been a beautiful day, with brilliant sunshine and great sport, but suddenly clouds began to gather in the sky to the west, and others came rushing blackly from the east.

Who acts: teller, clouds, others · What happens: be, begin, gather, come, rush · To what, where: beautiful day, sky, east

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teller, clouds, others), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 day	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 day	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sunshine	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 sunshine	case
9	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sunshine	amod
10	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sport	cc
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sport	amod
13	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sunshine	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 began	advmod
17	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 gather	mark
20	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 sky	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sky	det
23	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gather	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 west	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 west	det
26	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gather	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
29	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 began	advcl
31	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 came	xcomp
32	blackly	blackly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rushing	xcomp
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 east	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 east	det
35	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rushing	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	teller	a beautiful day and brilliant sunshine and great sport			tree rules
2	begin	past	clouds	a beautiful day and brilliant sunshine and great sport not said here		suddenly property	tree rules
3	gather	to-infinitive	clouds not said here		the sky	to the west	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to west=Co-Patient
4	come	past	others				tree rules
5	rush	gerund	others not said here		the east	blackly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from east=Trajectory

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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