Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 38
Dear is the eye of the dawn--”
What happens: be · To what, where: Dear eye
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eye | amod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eye | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eye | det |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 dawn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dawn | det |
| 7 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eye | nmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 eye | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 eye | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Dear eye | dawn | 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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