Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 24

Fionn demanded, as he stared on the beautiful fish.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: demand, stare

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 (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 demanded	nsubj
2	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stared	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 stared	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stared	nsubj
6	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 demanded	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 fish	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fish	amod
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stared	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 demanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past	Fionn						vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	stare	past	Fionn					on the beautiful fish	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on fish=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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