Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 22

And at that the robber ceased to be a robber, the murderer disappeared, the black-rimmed chasm packed with red fish and precipices changed to something else, and the round eyes that had been popping out of their sockets and trying to bite, changed also.

Who acts: robber, murderer, precipices, round eyes · What happens: cease, be, disappear, rim, pack, change · To what, where: that, robber, rimmed chasm, sockets

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber, murderer, precipices, round eyes), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 ceased	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 that	case
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 ceased	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robber	det
5	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ceased	nsubj
6	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	10 robber	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 robber	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 robber	det
10	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ceased	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 disappeared	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 murderer	det
13	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 disappeared	nsubj
14	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 robber	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chasm	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 chasm	det
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rimmed	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 black	punct
19	rimmed	rim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 chasm	amod
20	chasm	chasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 robber	conj
21	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 chasm	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 fish	case
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fish	amod
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 packed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 changed	cc
26	precipices	precipice	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 changed	nsubj
27	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 packed	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 something	case
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 changed	obl
30	else	else	ADV	_	29 something	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 popping	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 popping	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 eyes	det
34	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eyes	amod
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 popping	nsubj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 popping	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 popping	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 popping	aux
39	popping	pop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ceased	advcl
40	out	out	ADP	_	43 sockets	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 sockets	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 sockets	nmod:poss
43	sockets	socket	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 popping	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 trying	cc
45	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 popping	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 bite	mark
47	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 trying	xcomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 changed	punct
49	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 trying	parataxis
50	also	also	ADV	_	49 changed	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cease	past	the robber		that		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	to-infinitive		a robber and the rimmed chasm			tree rules
3	disappear	past	the murderer	a robber and the rimmed chasm not said here			tree rules
4	rim	participle					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	pack	participle		the rimmed chasm not said here		with red fish	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
6	change	past	precipices			to something result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to something=Result
7	pop out	past · perfect · progressive	the round eyes	eyes's sockets			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent socket=Patient
8	try	gerund	the round eyes not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	bite not said to happen	to-infinitive	the round eyes not said here				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
10	change	participle					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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