Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 31
Every eye beamed in that assembly, and on Fionn every eye was turned continually in the hope of a glance from the great, mild hero.
Who acts: eye, glance · What happens: beam, turn, hope · To what, where: assembly, eye, Fionn
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 (eye, glance), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 eye | det |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beamed | nsubj |
| 3 | beamed | beam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 assembly | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 assembly | det |
| 6 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beamed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Fionn | case |
| 10 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 eye | det |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 turned | aux:pass |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 beamed | conj |
| 15 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hope | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hope | det |
| 18 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 glance | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 glance | det |
| 21 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hope | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 hero | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hero | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hero | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 great | punct |
| 26 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hero | amod |
| 27 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glance | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beam | participle | every eye | that assembly | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in assembly=Location | ||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | every eye | Fionn | in the hope of a glance from the great mild hero; continually property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme on fionn=Source in hope=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | hope | a glance from the great mild hero | nom hope «feeling 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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