Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 40
And he twinkled at the stern, young eyes that gazed on him as he made his submission.
Who acts: Goll, young eyes · What happens: twinkle, gaze, make, submit · To what, where: stern, submission
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 (Goll, young eyes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 twinkled | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 twinkled | nsubj |
| 3 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 stern | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stern | det |
| 6 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twinkled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stern | appos |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gazed | nsubj |
| 11 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gazed | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 made | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gazed | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 submission | nmod:poss |
| 18 | submission | submission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 twinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twinkle | past | Goll | the stern | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stern=Location | ||||
| 2 | gaze | past | young eyes | on Goll | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Goll | Goll's submission | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent submission=Product | ||||
| 4 | submit | Goll | nom submission «communication 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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