Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 8

But Fionn’s eye was the eye of a wild creature that spies on darkness and moves there wittingly.

Who acts: eye, wild creature · What happens: be, spy, move · To what, where: eye, darkness

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 (eye, wild creature), 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	_	7 eye	cc
2	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eye	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Fionn	case
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eye	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eye	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 creature	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 creature	det
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 creature	amod
11	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eye	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 spies	nsubj
13	spies	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 creature	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 darkness	case
15	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spies	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 moves	cc
17	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 spies	conj
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 moves	advmod
19	wittingly	wittingly	ADV	_	17 moves	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eye	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fionn's eye	the eye		of a wild creature	tree rules
2	spy	present	a wild creature		darkness		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	move	present	a wild creature not said here		there	wittingly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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