Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 69
And he stared for a profound moment on disturbing, sinister horizons, and Crimthann meditated there with him.
Who acts: past, Crimthann · What happens: stare, meditate
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 (past, Crimthann), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stared | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 6 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moment | amod |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 horizons | case |
| 9 | disturbing | disturbing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horizons | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 disturbing | punct |
| 11 | sinister | sinister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horizons | compound |
| 12 | horizons | horizon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stared | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meditated | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 meditated | cc |
| 15 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 meditated | nsubj |
| 16 | meditated | meditate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stared | conj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 meditated | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 meditated | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | past | moment | on disturbing sinister horizons | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on horizon=Theme | |||
| 2 | meditate | past | Crimthann | there | with past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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