Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 3

I saw the dragon-flies flash and dart and turn, with a poise, with a speed that no other winged thing knows: I saw the hawk hover and stare and swoop: he fell like a falling stone, but he could not catch the king of the salmon: I saw the cold-eyed cat stretching along a bough level with the water, eager to hook and lift the creatures of the river.

Who acts: I, dragon flies, other, speed, eyed cat · What happens: see, flash, dart, turn, wing, know · To what, where: speed, hawk hover, king, eyed cat, bough level, creatures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dragon flies, other, speed), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flies	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flies	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 dragon	punct
6	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flash	nsubj
7	flash	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dart	cc
9	dart	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 flash	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 turn	cc
11	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 flash	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 poise	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 poise	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 poise	det
15	poise	poise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turn	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 speed	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 speed	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 speed	det
19	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knows	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 winged	obj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 winged	nsubj
23	winged	wing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 speed	acl:relcl
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 winged	obj
25	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 turn	parataxis
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hover	det
30	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hover	compound
31	hover	hover	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saw	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stare	cc
33	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 saw	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 swoop	cc
35	swoop	swoop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 stare	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 fell	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fell	nsubj
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
39	like	like	ADP	_	42 stone	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 stone	det
41	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 stone	amod
42	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fell	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 catch	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 catch	cc
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 catch	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 catch	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 catch	advmod
48	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 fell	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 king	det
50	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 catch	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 salmon	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 salmon	det
53	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 king	nmod
54	:	:	PUNCT	_	56 saw	punct
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 saw	nsubj
56	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 cat	det
58	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 eyed	amod
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 cold	punct
60	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 cat	amod
61	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 saw	obj
62	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 cat	acl
63	along	along	ADP	_	66 level	case
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 level	det
65	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 level	compound
66	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 stretching	obl
67	with	with	ADP	_	69 water	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 water	det
69	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 stretching	obl
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 eager	punct
71	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 saw	conj
72	to	to	PART	_	73 hook	mark
73	hook	hook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 eager	xcomp
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 lift	cc
75	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	73 hook	conj
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 creatures	det
77	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 lift	obj
78	of	of	ADP	_	80 river	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 river	det
80	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 creatures	nmod
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	flash	present	the dragon flies				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	dart	present	the dragon flies not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	present	the dragon flies not said here			with a poise	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	wing	past	no other	a speed			tree rules
6	know	present	a speed				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	see	past	I	the hawk hover			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hover=Stimulus
8	stare	infinitive	I not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
9	swoop	infinitive	I not said here				tree rules
10	fall	past	speed			like a falling stone	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	fall	gerund					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	not catch	could	speed	the king of the salmon			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
13	see	past	I	the eyed cat			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus
14	stretch	gerund	the eyed cat not said here		a bough level	with the water	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along level=Location
15	hook	to-infinitive	the eyed cat not said here				vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
16	lift	infinitive	the eyed cat not said here	the creatures of the river			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=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: «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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