Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 33

Tuan shaded his brow with his hand, and he remembered backwards through incredible ages to the beginning of the world and the first days of Eire’.

Who acts: Tuan · What happens: shade, remember, begin · To what, where: brow, incredible ages, world

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuan), 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	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shaded	nsubj
2	shaded	shade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brow	nmod:poss
4	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shaded	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shaded	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 remembered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 remembered	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 remembered	nsubj
11	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shaded	parataxis
12	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	11 remembered	advmod
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 ages	case
14	incredible	incredible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ages	amod
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 remembered	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 beginning	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beginning	det
18	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remembered	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beginning	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 days	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 days	det
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 days	amod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 beginning	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Eire	case
27	Eire	Eire	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 days	nmod
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 remembered	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shade	past	Tuan	Tuan's brow		with Tuan's hand	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Beneficiary
2	remember	past	Tuan		through incredible ages; to the beginning of the world and the first days of Eire	backwards property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to beginning=be'
3	begin			the world			nom beginning «event 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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