Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 16

The watcher became then an eye, a rigidity, an intense out-thrusting and ransacking of thin-spun distance.

Who acts: watcher, thin spun distance · What happens: become, spin, thrust · To what, where: eye

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watcher, thin spun distance), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 watcher	det
2	watcher	watcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 eye	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eye	det
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rigidity	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rigidity	det
9	rigidity	rigidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eye	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thrusting	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thrusting	det
12	intense	intense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thrusting	amod
13	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thrusting	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 out	punct
15	thrusting	thrusting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rigidity	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ransacking	cc
17	ransacking	ransacking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thrusting	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 distance	case
19	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 distance	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 thin	punct
21	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 distance	amod
22	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thrusting	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	become	past	the watcher	a eye and a rigidity	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	spin	participle			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	thrust		thin spun distance		nom thrusting «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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