Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 4

But the Power that protects all creatures had put a squint into this man’s eye, so that he always threw crooked.

Who acts: Power, man · What happens: protect, put, throw · To what, where: creatures, Power, eye

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Power, man), 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	_	9 put	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Power	det
3	Power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	nsubj:pass
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 protects	nsubj
5	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Power	acl:relcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 creatures	det
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 protects	obj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 put	aux
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 squint	det
11	squint	squint	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	16 eye	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eye	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 man	case
16	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 threw	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 threw	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 threw	nsubj
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 threw	advmod
22	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 put	conj
23	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 threw	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	protect	present	the Power	all creatures			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Beneficiary
2	put	past · perfect · passive		the Power	this man's eye		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset squint=Goal
3	throw	past	man			always, crooked property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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