Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 10

He would not listen to a harp if he could hear her speak, for she was the delight of ages, the gem of time, and the wonder of the world till Doom.

Who acts: Laca, Mongan · What happens: not listen, hear, speak, be, wonder · To what, where: Mongan, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laca, Mongan), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 listen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 listen	advmod
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 harp	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 harp	det
7	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 hear	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	aux
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 listen	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hear	obj
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hear	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 delight	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 delight	case
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 delight	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 delight	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 delight	det
19	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 ages	case
21	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 delight	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gem	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gem	det
24	gem	gem	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 delight	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 time	case
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gem	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wonder	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wonder	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wonder	det
30	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wonder	nmod
34	till	till	ADP	_	35 Doom	case
35	Doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wonder	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not listen	would	Laca			to a harp	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to harp=Theme
2	hear a condition, not said to happen	could	Laca	Mongan			tree rules
3	speak speech: other	infinitive	Mongan not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Mongan		of ages	for the delight	tree rules
5	wonder			the world	till Doom		nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient till=obl

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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