Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 19

And at that the champions gazed also, straining hungrily afar, until their eyes became filled with a blue darkness and they could no longer see even the things that were close to them.

Who acts: eyes, champions, things · What happens: gaze, strain, become, fill, see, be · To what, where: things, champions

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 (eyes, champions, things), 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	_	6 gazed	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 champions	case
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 at	fixed
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 champions	det
5	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gazed	obl
6	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	also	also	ADV	_	6 gazed	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 straining	punct
9	straining	strain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 gazed	advcl
10	hungrily	hungrily	ADV	_	11 afar	advmod
11	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 straining	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 became	mark
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gazed	parataxis
17	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 became	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 darkness	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 darkness	det
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 darkness	amod
21	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 filled	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
25	no	no	ADV	_	26 longer	advmod
26	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 see	advmod
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 became	conj
28	even	even	ADV	_	30 things	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 things	det
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 see	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 close	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 close	cop
33	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 things	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 close	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gaze	past				at the champions	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at champion=Theme
2	strain	gerund				afar property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	champions's eyes				tree rules
4	fill	participle	champions's eyes not said here			with a blue darkness	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with darkness=Instrument
5	see	could	champions = champion	the things		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	the things		champions = champion	close 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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