Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 30
The boy looked down on him, and in the noble trust and fearlessness of that regard Fionn’s heart melted away.
Who acts: boy, regard · What happens: look down, melt away, trust · To what, where: noble trust, heart
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: who acts (boy, regard), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trust | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 trust | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 trust | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trust | det |
| 11 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trust | amod |
| 12 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fearlessness | cc |
| 14 | fearlessness | fearlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trust | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 regard | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 regard | det |
| 17 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trust | nmod |
| 18 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Fionn | case |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 regard | nmod |
| 21 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 heart | acl |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 melted | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | the boy | the noble trust of that regard Fionn's heart and fearlessness | on mac | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme | |||
| 2 | melt away | participle | Fionn's heart not said here | away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | trust | that regard Fionn's heart | nom trust «possession intransitive»: of=agent |
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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