Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 36

Everywhere he walked the dog followed him, giving little prances and little pats against him, and keeping her eyes fixed on his with such eagerness and intelligence that he marvelled.

Who acts: dog, eyes · What happens: walk, follow, give, keep, fix, marvell · To what, where: Fergus, little prances, eyes, such eagerness, intelligence

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 (dog, eyes), 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	Everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 walked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	nsubj
6	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 giving	punct
9	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 walked	advcl
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 prances	amod
11	prances	prance	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 giving	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pats	cc
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pats	amod
14	pats	pat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 prances	conj
15	against	against	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 giving	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 keeping	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 keeping	cc
19	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 giving	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 keeping	obj
22	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 keeping	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 eagerness	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eagerness	nmod:poss
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 eagerness	case
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eagerness	amod
27	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fixed	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 intelligence	cc
29	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eagerness	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 marvelled	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 marvelled	nsubj
32	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 intelligence	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	dog	Fergus		everywhere property	tree rules
2	follow	past	the dog				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	gerund	dog not said here	little prances and little pats		against dog	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prance=Theme
4	keep	gerund	dog not said here	animal's eyes			tree rules
5	fix	participle	animal's eyes not said here		dog's such eagerness and intelligence		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	marvell	past	dog	intelligence not said here			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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