Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 18
A small boy might shiver as he stared into that wink and blink and twink of brown pebbles and murder.
Who acts: small boy, boy · What happens: shiver, stare, blink, twink
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small boy, boy), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shiver | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 shiver | aux |
| 5 | shiver | shiver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 stared | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stared | nsubj |
| 8 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shiver | advcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 wink | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 wink | det |
| 11 | wink | wink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stared | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 blink | cc |
| 13 | blink | blink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shiver | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 twink | cc |
| 15 | twink | twink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blink | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pebbles | case |
| 17 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pebbles | amod |
| 18 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 twink | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 murder | cc |
| 20 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pebbles | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shiver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shiver | might | a small boy | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stare | past | boy | into that wink | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into wink=Theme | ||||
| 3 | blink | infinitive | a small boy not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | twink | infinitive | a small boy not said here | of brown pebbles and murder | 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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