Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 57

And at that Fionn had no more to say; but his eyes may have flown to his mother and stayed there.

What happens: have, say, fly, stay · To what, where: more, Fionn, eyes, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	5 had	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 Fionn	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Fionn	det
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 more	det
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 had	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 more	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 flown	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 flown	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flown	nsubj:pass
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 flown	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 flown	aux
16	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 mother	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flown	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stayed	cc
21	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flown	conj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 stayed	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	no more		that Fionn	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	fly	may · perfect · passive	Fionn's eyes	Fionn's mother		vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mother=Destination
4	stay	past			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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