Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 13

Or they stood dreaming together, locked in a clasping of arms and eyes, gazing up and down on each other, Iollan staring down into sweet grey wells that peeped and flickered under thin brows, and Uct Dealv looking up into great black ones that went dreamy and went hot in endless alternation.

Who acts: Iollan, sweet grey wells, Uct, great black ones · What happens: stand, dream, lock, gaze, stare down, peep · To what, where: clasping, thin brows, endless alternation

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iollan, sweet grey wells, Uct, great black ones), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	3 stood	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stood	xcomp
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 dreaming	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 locked	punct
7	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dreaming	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 clasping	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 clasping	det
10	clasping	clasping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 locked	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 arms	case
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clasping	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eyes	cc
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 arms	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gazing	punct
16	gazing	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 dreaming	conj
17	up	up	ADV	_	16 gazing	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 down	cc
19	down	down	ADV	_	17 up	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 each	case
21	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	16 gazing	obl
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 each	fixed
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 staring	punct
24	Iollan	Iollan	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 staring	nsubj
25	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 staring	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 wells	case
28	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wells	amod
29	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wells	amod
30	wells	well	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 staring	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 peeped	nsubj
32	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wells	acl:relcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 flickered	cc
34	flickered	flicker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 peeped	conj
35	under	under	ADP	_	37 brows	case
36	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 brows	amod
37	brows	brow	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 flickered	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 looking	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 looking	cc
40	Uct	Uct	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 looking	nsubj
41	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Uct	flat
42	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 looking	compound:prt
44	into	into	ADP	_	47 ones	case
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ones	amod
46	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ones	amod
47	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 looking	obl
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 went	nsubj
49	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 ones	acl:relcl
50	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 went	xcomp
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 went	cc
52	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 went	conj
53	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 went	xcomp
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 alternation	case
55	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 alternation	amod
56	alternation	alternation	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 went	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Iollan			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	dream	gerund	Iollan not said here		together property	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	lock	participle		a clasping of arms and eyes		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	gaze	gerund	Iollan not said here		on each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on each=Theme
5	stare down	gerund	Iollan		into sweet grey wells; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into well=Theme
6	peep	past	sweet grey wells			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	flicker	past	sweet grey wells not said here	thin brows		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under brow=Location
8	look up	gerund	Uct		into great black ones	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into one=Theme
9	go	past	great black ones		dreamy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	go	past	great black ones not said here	endless alternation	hot property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in alternation=Location

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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