Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 2

Minutes would pass and only a few travellers would come, and minutes more would go when nobody was in sight at all.

Who acts: Minutes, few travellers, nobody · What happens: pass, come, go, be · To what, where: sight

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minutes, few travellers, nobody), 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	Minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pass	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
3	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 come	cc
5	only	only	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 travellers	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 travellers	amod
8	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 come	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pass	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 more	obl:unmarked
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 go	advmod
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pass	conj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 sight	advmod
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 sight	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sight	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 sight	case
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sight	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	pass	would	Minutes			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	would	a few travellers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	would	Minutes not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	nobody	sight	at all	tree rules

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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