Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 33

Then Fionn would bend his head and stare into the water, and as he stared he would place his thumb in his mouth under his “Tooth of Knowledge,” his “wisdom tooth.”

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: bend, stare, thumb · To what, where: head, mouth

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bend	advmod
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bend	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bend	aux
4	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stare	cc
8	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bend	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stare	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stared	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 stared	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stared	nsubj
16	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bend	parataxis
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thumb	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 thumb	aux
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thumb	compound
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 thumb	nmod:poss
21	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stared	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 mouth	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mouth	nmod:poss
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thumb	nmod
25	under	under	ADP	_	28 Tooth	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 Tooth	nmod:poss
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Tooth	punct
28	Tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thumb	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Knowledge	case
30	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Tooth	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stared	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 bend	punct
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 tooth	nmod:poss
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 tooth	punct
35	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tooth	compound
36	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bend	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 bend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	would	Fionn	Fionn's head		then		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent head=Patient tooth=Result
2	stare	infinitive	Fionn not said here				into the water	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into water=Theme
3	stare	past	Fionn					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	thumb	would	Fionn		Fionn's mouth		under Fionn's Tooth of Knowledge	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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