Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 25

We may be sure that the eye that could stay open stayed open that night as long as it could, and that the one ear listened to the sleepy song until the song got too low to be heard, until it was too tender to be felt vibrating along those soft arms, until Fionn was asleep again, with a new picture in his little head and a new notion to ponder on.

Who acts: We, eye, one ear, song, Fionn · What happens: be, stay, listen, get, hear, feel · To what, where: soft arms

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 (We, eye, one ear, song), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sure	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	cop
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 stayed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stayed	nsubj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 stay	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stay	aux
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 eye	acl:relcl
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stay	xcomp
12	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	ccomp
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stayed	xcomp
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stayed	obl:unmarked
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 stayed	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 could	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 long	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 listened	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 listened	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 listened	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ear	det
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 ear	nummod
26	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 listened	nsubj
27	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 song	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 song	det
30	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 song	amod
31	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 listened	obl
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	35 got	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 song	det
34	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 got	nsubj
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 listened	advcl
36	too	too	ADV	_	37 low	advmod
37	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 got	xcomp
38	to	to	PART	_	40 heard	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 heard	aux:pass
40	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 low	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 tender	punct
42	until	until	SCONJ	_	46 tender	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 tender	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 tender	cop
45	too	too	ADV	_	46 tender	advmod
46	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 heard	parataxis
47	to	to	PART	_	49 felt	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 felt	aux:pass
49	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 tender	advcl
50	vibrating	vibrate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 felt	xcomp
51	along	along	ADP	_	54 arms	case
52	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	54 arms	det
53	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 arms	amod
54	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 vibrating	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 asleep	punct
56	until	until	SCONJ	_	59 asleep	mark
57	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 asleep	nsubj
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 asleep	cop
59	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 felt	advcl
60	again	again	ADV	_	59 asleep	advmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 picture	punct
62	with	with	ADP	_	65 picture	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 picture	det
64	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 picture	amod
65	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 felt	parataxis
66	in	in	ADP	_	69 head	case
67	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 head	nmod:poss
68	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 head	amod
69	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 picture	nmod
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 notion	cc
71	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	73 notion	det
72	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 notion	amod
73	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 head	conj
74	to	to	PART	_	75 ponder	mark
75	ponder	ponder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	73 notion	acl
76	on	on	ADP	_	75 ponder	compound:prt
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	We			sure property	tree rules
2	stay	could	the eye			open property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stay	past	the eye		night	long, open property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	listen	past	the one ear			to the sleepy song	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme
5	get	past	the song			low property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	hear	to-infinitive · passive	the song not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»
7	is	past	song			tender property	tree rules
8	feel	to-infinitive · passive	song not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Stimulus
9	vibrate	gerund	song not said here	that soft arms			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along arm=Location
10	is	past	Fionn		again	asleep property	tree rules
11	ponder on	to-infinitive	song not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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