Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 29
A soft brown eye looked up at him and the shy tongue touched again on his chin.
Who acts: soft brown eye · What happens: look up, touch · To what, where: shy tongue, chin
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soft brown eye), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 eye | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eye | amod |
| 3 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eye | amod |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 looked | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tongue | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tongue | det |
| 11 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tongue | amod |
| 12 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 him | conj |
| 13 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tongue | acl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 touched | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 chin | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 chin | nmod:poss |
| 17 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touched | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | a soft brown eye | at Fergus | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch | participle | the shy tongue not said here | Fergus's chin | again | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP 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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