Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 14

Now and again one of the dogs turned a head in full flight, and stared, not at Fionn, but distantly backwards, over the spreading and swelling plain where their companions of the hunt had disappeared.

Who acts: one, spreading · What happens: turn, stare, plain, disappear · To what, where: head, companions

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 (one, spreading), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 turned	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 turned	cc
3	again	again	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 turned	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dogs	det
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 head	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 flight	case
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flight	amod
13	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stared	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stared	cc
16	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Fionn	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 Fionn	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Fionn	case
20	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 stared	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 backwards	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 backwards	cc
23	distantly	distantly	ADV	_	24 backwards	advmod
24	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	16 stared	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spreading	punct
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 spreading	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 spreading	det
28	spreading	spreading	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 plain	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 swelling	cc
30	swelling	swelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spreading	conj
31	plain	plain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 stared	parataxis
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 disappeared	advmod
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 companions	nmod:poss
34	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 disappeared	nsubj:pass
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 hunt	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hunt	det
37	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 disappeared	obl
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 disappeared	aux
39	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 plain	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	one of the dogs	a head	now	in full flight	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Patient in flight=Topic
2	stare	past	one of the dogs not said here			at Fionn; backwards property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fionn=Theme
3	plain	present	the spreading and swelling				tree rules
4	disappear	past · perfect · passive		spreading's companions		of the hunt	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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