Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 52
The king sank back in his chair stupefied, gazing from one to the other, and then turned an unseeing, fear-dimmed eye towards Becfola.
Who acts: king, chair · What happens: sink back, stupefy, gaze, turn, dim · To what, where: unseeing dimmed eye, Becfola
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 (king, chair), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 sank | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 stupefied | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stupefied | nsubj |
| 8 | stupefied | stupefy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sank | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gazing | punct |
| 10 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stupefied | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 gazing | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 other | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 turned | advmod |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sank | conj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 eye | det |
| 21 | unseeing | unseeing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eye | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 unseeing | punct |
| 23 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dimmed | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 fear | punct |
| 25 | dimmed | dim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 eye | amod |
| 26 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | obj |
| 27 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 28 Becfola | case |
| 28 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink back | past | the king | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | stupefy | past | king's chair | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | king's chair not said here | from one to the other | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | the king not said here | a unseeing dimmed eye | Becfola | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme towards becfola=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | dim | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/44/52/