Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 23

It touched her with a hazel rod, and, while we looked, she disappeared, and where she had been there was a fawn standing and shivering.

Who acts: hand, we, Fionn, fawn · What happens: touch, look, disappear, be, stand, shiver · To what, where: Fionn

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 (hand, we, Fionn, fawn), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 rod	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rod	det
6	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rod	compound
7	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 disappeared	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 disappeared	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 looked	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 disappeared	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 disappeared	nsubj
16	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 touched	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 standing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 standing	cc
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 there	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 there	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 there	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 there	cop
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 standing	advmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 standing	aux
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fawn	det
26	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 standing	nsubj
27	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 disappeared	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shivering	cc
29	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 standing	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	past	hand	Fionn	with a hazel rod	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer with rod=Instrument
2	look	past	we			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	disappear	past	Fionn			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past · perfect	Fionn		there property	tree rules
5	stand	past · progressive	a fawn			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	shiver	gerund	a fawn not said here			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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