Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 44

One can imagine Goll’s merry stare taking in all that could be seen; Cona’n’s grim eye raking the women’s faces while his tongue raked them again; the Rough mac Morna shouldering here and there in the house and about it, with maybe a hatchet in his hand, and Art Og coursing further afield and vowing that if the cub was there he would find him.

Who acts: One, merry stare, tongue, Rough mac, Art, cub · What happens: imagine, take, see, rake, shoulder, course · To what, where: merry stare, that, faces, women, house, Morna

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, merry stare, tongue, Rough mac), 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	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stare	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Goll	case
6	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stare	amod
7	stare	stare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imagine	obj
8	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stare	acl
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 seen	det:predet
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 seen	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 seen	aux:pass
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 taking	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 ’s	punct
16	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 ’s	nsubj
17	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	conj
18	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eye	amod
19	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ’s	obj
20	raking	rake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 ’s	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 women	det
22	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 faces	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 women	case
24	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 raking	obj
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 raked	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tongue	nmod:poss
27	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 raked	nsubj
28	raked	rake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 raking	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 raked	obj
30	again	again	ADV	_	28 raked	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 mac	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mac	det
33	Rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 mac	amod
34	mac	mac	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imagine	parataxis
35	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 mac	appos
36	shouldering	shoulder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 mac	acl
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 shouldering	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 there	cc
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 here	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 house	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 house	det
42	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shouldering	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 it	cc
44	about	about	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 house	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 hatchet	punct
47	with	with	ADP	_	50 hatchet	case
48	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	50 hatchet	advmod
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 hatchet	det
50	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shouldering	obl
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 hand	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 hand	nmod:poss
53	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hatchet	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 Art	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 Art	cc
56	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 mac	parataxis
57	Og	Og	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Art	flat
58	coursing	course	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	56 Art	acl
59	further	further	ADV	_	60 afield	advmod
60	afield	afield	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 coursing	xcomp
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 vowing	cc
62	vowing	vow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	58 coursing	conj
63	that	that	SCONJ	_	71 find	mark
64	if	if	SCONJ	_	68 there	mark
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 cub	det
66	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 there	nsubj
67	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 there	cop
68	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	71 find	advcl
69	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 find	nsubj
70	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 find	aux
71	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 vowing	advcl
72	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 find	obj
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	can	One	Goll's merry stare				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stare=Theme
2	take	gerund	Goll's merry stare not said here					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	see	could · passive		that				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	rake	gerund	One not said here	the women's faces				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent face=Initial_Location
5	rake	past	Cona’n's tongue	women = woman		again		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Initial_Location
6	shoulder	gerund	the Rough mac not said here		the house; here		with a hatchet in Cona’n's hand	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in house=Destination
7	course	gerund	Art not said here				afield property	tree rules
8	vow	gerund	Art not said here					tree rules
9	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the cub				there property	tree rules
10	find	would	Cona’n = cona'n	Morna				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
11	stare		Goll					nom stare «act intransitive»: poss=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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