Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 36
He looked on it with his heart, with his soul in his eyes, and when he turned to look on Fionn the boy did not know whether the love that was in his eyes was for the fish or for himself.
Who acts: Fionn, boy, love · What happens: look, turn, not know, be · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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, boy, love), 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 | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 soul | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 soul | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 soul | nmod:poss |
| 11 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 soul | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 turned | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 look | mark |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 turned | xcomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 Fionn | case |
| 23 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 look | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 boy | det |
| 25 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 know | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 know | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 know | advmod |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 look | conj |
| 29 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 31 love | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 love | det |
| 31 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fish | nsubj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 eyes | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 eyes | cop |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 eyes | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 love | acl:relcl |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 fish | cop |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 fish | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fish | det |
| 40 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 know | ccomp |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 himself | cc |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 himself | case |
| 43 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 fish | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Fionn | with Fionn's heart; on more | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Fionn | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | on Fionn | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on fionn=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | the boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the love | Fionn's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the love | for the fish | tree rules |
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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