Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 23

He would have one ear that would catch an unusual voice, one eye that would open, however sleepy the other one was.

Who acts: cot, one ear, one eye, other one · What happens: have, catch, open, be · To what, where: one ear, unusual voice

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cot, one ear, one eye, other one), 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	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ear	nummod
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 catch	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 catch	aux
8	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ear	acl:relcl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 voice	det
10	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 voice	amod
11	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 catch	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eye	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 eye	nummod
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 voice	appos
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 open	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 open	aux
17	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 eye	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sleepy	punct
19	however	however	ADV	_	20 sleepy	advmod
20	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 have	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sleepy	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sleepy	cop
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	would	cot	one ear		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
2	catch	would	one ear	a unusual voice		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
3	open	would	one eye			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the other one		however, sleepy property	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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