Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 18

But the sight of this youth left her without the desire to eat, and, as for sleep, she dreaded it, for if she closed an eye she would be robbed of the one delight in time, which was to look at this young man, and not to cease looking at him while her eye could peer or her head could remain upright.

Who acts: sight, Crimthann, eye, one delight, head · What happens: leave, eat, dread, close, rob, be · To what, where: Crimthann, sight, eye, youth

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Crimthann, eye, one delight), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 left	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sight	det
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 youth	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sight	nmod
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	obj
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 desire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 desire	det
11	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 left	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dreaded	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dreaded	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 sleep	case
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 sleep	case
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dreaded	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sleep	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dreaded	nsubj
22	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dreaded	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 closed	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 closed	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 closed	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 closed	nsubj
28	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dreaded	conj
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 eye	det
30	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 closed	obj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 robbed	nsubj:pass
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 robbed	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 robbed	aux:pass
34	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 eye	acl:relcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 delight	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 delight	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 delight	compound
38	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 robbed	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 time	case
40	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 delight	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 look	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 look	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 look	cop
44	to	to	PART	_	45 look	mark
45	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 delight	parataxis
46	at	at	ADP	_	49 man	case
47	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 man	det
48	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 man	amod
49	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 look	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 cease	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 cease	cc
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 cease	advmod
53	to	to	PART	_	54 cease	mark
54	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 look	conj
55	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 cease	xcomp
56	at	at	ADP	_	57 him	case
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 looking	obl
58	while	while	SCONJ	_	62 peer	mark
59	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 eye	nmod:poss
60	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 peer	nsubj
61	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 peer	aux
62	peer	peer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 looking	advcl
63	or	or	CCONJ	_	67 remain	cc
64	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 head	nmod:poss
65	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 remain	nsubj
66	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 remain	aux
67	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 peer	conj
68	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 remain	xcomp
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the sight of this youth	Crimthann	without the desire	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	the sight of this youth not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dread	past	Crimthann	sight	as sleep	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	close a condition, not said to happen	past	Crimthann	a eye		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
5	rob	would · passive	a eye not said here	Crimthann	of the one delight in time	vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of delight=Source
6	is	past	the one delight in time		at this young man; look property	tree rules
7	not cease	to-infinitive	the one delight in time not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
8	look	gerund	the one delight in time not said here		at man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
9	peer	could	Crimthann's eye			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
10	remain	could	Crimthann's head		upright property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	sight			this youth		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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