Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 25

So great was the noise between them that there was nothing in the world but what was looking on and listening to the combat.

Who acts: great noise · What happens: be, look on, listen · To what, where: great noise, nothing, world

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great noise), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 great	advmod
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 noise	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 noise	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 noise	det
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	nsubj
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 noise	nmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 nothing	cop
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	nmod
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 looking	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 looking	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looking	aux
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 nothing	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	18 looking	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 listening	cc
21	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 looking	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 combat	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 combat	det
24	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 listening	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the great noise		between pieces = piece	tree rules
2	is a	past	the great noise	nothing	the world		tree rules
3	look on	past · progressive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	listen	gerund				to the combat	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to combat=Theme

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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