Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 38

To her eye and to the eye of her maid the world was as it always had been, and the landmarks they knew were about them.

Who acts: landmarks, world · What happens: know, be · To what, where: landmarks

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landmarks, world), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 eye	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eye	nmod:poss
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eye	cc
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 eye	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eye	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 maid	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 maid	nmod:poss
10	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eye	nmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 them	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 them	cop
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 been	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 been	nsubj
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 been	advmod
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 been	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 them	cop
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 them	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 them	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 landmarks	det
22	landmarks	landmark	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 them	nsubj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 landmarks	acl:relcl
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 them	cop
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 maid	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eye	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	landmarks = landmark	the landmarks not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer landmark=Stimulus
2	is	past	the world					about landmarks = landmark	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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