Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 34
And Fionn smiled back into that eye which seemed a well of tenderness and friendship.
Who acts: Fionn, eye · What happens: smile back, seem · To what, where: eye, well
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 (Fionn, eye), 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 smiled | cc |
| 2 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 smiled | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 eye | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 eye | det |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 eye | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 well | det |
| 11 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tenderness | case |
| 13 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 well | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 friendship | cc |
| 15 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tenderness | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile back | past | Fionn | that eye | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into eye=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | that eye | a well of tenderness and friendship | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme well=Attribute |
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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