Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 23

Fionn sat at the kindly man’s feet, his hands absent among tall grasses, and listening with all his ears.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: sit, listen · To what, where: feet

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn), 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	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	8 feet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	6 man	advmod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feet	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 man	case
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 absent	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 absent	nsubj
12	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	conj
13	among	among	ADP	_	15 grasses	case
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grasses	amod
15	grasses	grass	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 absent	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 listening	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 listening	cc
18	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 ears	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 ears	det:predet
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ears	nmod:poss
22	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 listening	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Fionn			the man's feet			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
2	listen	gerund	Fionn not said here					with Fionn's ears	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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