Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 11
He was excited certainly, but he was sad also, and as he stood gazing on Fionn his eyes were so kind that the boy was touched, and they were yet so melancholy that it almost made Fionn weep.
Who acts: look, eyes, melancholy · What happens: be, stand, gaze, touch, make · To what, where: boy, Fionn weep
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (look, eyes, melancholy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 excited | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 excited | cop |
| 3 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 excited | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sad | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 sad | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sad | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sad | cop |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 excited | conj |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 sad | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 stood | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 excited | conj |
| 16 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 kind | csubj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Fionn | case |
| 18 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gazing | obl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 kind | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 kind | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 kind | advmod |
| 23 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stood | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 touched | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boy | det |
| 26 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 touched | aux:pass |
| 28 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 kind | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 yet | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 yet | cc |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 yet | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 yet | cop |
| 33 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 stood | advmod |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 melancholy | advmod |
| 35 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 yet | obl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 made | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 made | nsubj |
| 38 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 39 made | advmod |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 yet | advcl |
| 40 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 weep | compound |
| 41 | weep | weep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 excited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | look | certainly, excited property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | look | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | look | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gaze | gerund | on Fionn | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on fionn=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | look's eyes | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | touch | past · passive | the boy | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | eyes = eye | melancholy obl; yet property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | make | past | melancholy | Fionn weep | almost property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material weep=Product |
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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