Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 9

He saw, then, not a thing but a movement; something that was darker than the darkness it loomed on; not a being but a presence, and, as it were, impending pressure.

Who acts: eye, that, darkness · What happens: see, be, loom on, not be, impend · To what, where: thing, darkness, presence, pressure

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, that, darkness), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 thing	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 thing	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 movement	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 movement	det
11	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 something	punct
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 thing	appos
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 darker	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 darker	cop
16	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 something	amod
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 darkness	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 darkness	det
19	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 darker	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 loomed	nsubj
21	loomed	loom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 darkness	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 loomed	compound:prt
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 presence	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 presence	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 presence	det
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 presence	cop
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 presence	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 presence	det
29	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 something	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 impending	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 impending	cc
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 and	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 impending	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 impending	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 impending	aux
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 impending	punct
37	impending	impend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	advcl
38	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 impending	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	eye	a thing but a movement		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	is	past	that		than the darkness; dark property	tree rules
3	loom on	past	darkness	the darkness not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location darkness=Theme
4	not is a	gerund	eye not said here	a presence		tree rules
5	impend	past · progressive	darkness	pressure		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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