Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 11

How sad it is that I should begin to see the sort of things I thought I saw.”

Who acts: vision, I · What happens: be, begin, see, think, sort · To what, where: sort, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vision, I), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 sad	advmod
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 begin	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sad	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sad	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 begin	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 begin	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 begin	aux
8	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 begin	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sort	det
12	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 things	case
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sort	nmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 things	acl:relcl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 begin	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	vision		sad property	tree rules
2	begin	should	I			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	the sort of things		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	I	things not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent thing=Attribute clause=Theme
5	see	past	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	sort			things		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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