Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 14

But Fionn had taken the covering from his spear, and with his brow pressed close to it he kept his mind and all his senses engaged on that sizzling, murderous point.

Who acts: Fionn, senses · What happens: take, press, keep, engage, mind · To what, where: Fionn, spear, brow, darkness, mind, sizzling

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, senses), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 taken	cc
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 taken	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 covering	det
6	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 spear	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 spear	nmod:poss
9	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kept	cc
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 brow	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brow	nmod:poss
14	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obl
15	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 brow	acl
16	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 pressed	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pressed	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kept	nsubj
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mind	nmod:poss
22	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 engaged	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 senses	det:predet
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 senses	nmod:poss
26	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 engaged	nsubj
27	engaged	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 kept	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 sizzling	case
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 sizzling	det
30	sizzling	sizzling	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 engaged	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 point	punct
32	murderous	murderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 point	amod
33	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sizzling	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect · passive		Fionn		Fionn's spear		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme covering=Destination
2	press	participle		Fionn's brow not said here	darkness		close property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past	Fionn	Fionn's mind			with Fionn's brow	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme
4	engage	past	Fionn's senses			that sizzling		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	mind		Fionn					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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