Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 32

And he sat forward, seeing all, seeing none, with his mouth drooping open, and such a wildness and bristle lowering from that great glum brow that the champions shivered as though already in the chill of death, and were silent.

Who acts: man, mouth, chill · What happens: sit, see, droop, bristle, lower, shiver · To what, where: all, none, great glum brow, champions

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, mouth, chill), 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 sat	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seeing	punct
6	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 seeing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seeing	punct
9	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 seeing	conj
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 seeing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mouth	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seeing	obl
15	drooping	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 mouth	acl
16	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 drooping	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wildness	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wildness	cc
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 wildness	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wildness	det
21	wildness	wildness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bristle	cc
23	bristle	bristle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
24	lowering	lower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 bristle	xcomp
25	from	from	ADP	_	29 brow	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 brow	nsubj
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 brow	amod
28	glum	glum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 brow	amod
29	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lowering	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 brow	nmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 champions	det
32	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 that	parataxis
33	shivered	shiver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 champions	acl
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 silent	mark
35	though	though	ADV	_	45 silent	advmod
36	already	already	ADV	_	39 chill	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 chill	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 chill	det
39	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 silent	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 death	case
41	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 chill	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 silent	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 silent	cc
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 silent	cop
45	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shivered	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	man			forward property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	gerund	man not said here	all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus
3	see	gerund	man not said here	none		with man's mouth	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus
4	droop	gerund	man's mouth not said here			open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bristle	present	man not said here				tree rules
6	lower	gerund	man not said here		great glum brow		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from brow=Destination
7	shiver	participle		the champions not said here			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	past	the chill of death			silent, though property	tree rules

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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