Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 20
At that wise Fionn put his hand before his eyes, seeing all that happened.
Who acts: that · What happens: put, see, happen · To what, where: hand, wise Fionn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Fionn | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Fionn | nsubj |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fionn | amod |
| 4 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seeing | punct |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 put | advcl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 happened | det:predet |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seeing | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | appearance's hand | wise Fionn | before appearance's eyes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme at fionn=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | happen | past | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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