Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 17
Finnian loomed on him as a portent and a terror; but he had no fear of Time.
Who acts: Finnian, gentleman · What happens: loom, have, fear · To what, where: fear, Time
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finnian, gentleman), 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 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 loomed | nsubj |
| 2 | loomed | loom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loomed | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 portent | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 portent | det |
| 7 | portent | portent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loomed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 terror | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 terror | det |
| 10 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 portent | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loomed | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 fear | det |
| 16 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Time | case |
| 18 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fear | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loom | past | Finnian | on gentleman; as a portent and a terror | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | gentleman | no fear of Time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fear | Time | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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