Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 6
Fionn had never seen the like of this vast person, and he stood gazing on him, lost in a stare of astonishment.
Who acts: Fionn, astonishment · What happens: not see, stand, gaze, lose, stare · To what, where: vast person, stare
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 (Fionn, astonishment), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 person | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 person | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 person | det |
| 9 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 person | amod |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | conj |
| 15 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 stood | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gazing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lost | punct |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 stood | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 stare | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stare | det |
| 22 | stare | stare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lost | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 astonishment | case |
| 24 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stare | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | Fionn | the vast person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Fionn | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | Fionn not said here | on Fionn | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | Fionn not said here | a stare of astonishment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in stare=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | stare | astonishment | nom stare «act 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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