Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 6
His eyes were skilled to observe in the moving dusk and dapple of green woods.
What happens: skill, observe, move · To what, where: eyes
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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 skilled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 skilled | aux:pass |
| 4 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 observe | mark |
| 6 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 skilled | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dusk | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dusk | det |
| 9 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 dusk | amod |
| 10 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 observe | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dapple | cc |
| 12 | dapple | dapple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dusk | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 woods | case |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woods | amod |
| 15 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dapple | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 skilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skill | past · passive | trouble's eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | observe | to-infinitive | dusk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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