Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 24
And again they stared, until their straining eyes grew dim with tears and winks, and they saw trees that stood up and sat down, and fields that wobbled and spun round and round in a giddily swirling world.
Who acts: things, straining eyes, trees, fields · What happens: stare, grow, see, stand up, sit down, wobble · To what, where: trees, giddily swirling world
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 (things, straining eyes, trees, fields), 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 | _ | 4 stared | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 stared | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stared | nsubj |
| 4 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 grew | mark |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | straining | straining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | compound |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stared | conj |
| 11 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 tears | case |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dim | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 winks | cc |
| 15 | winks | wink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tears | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stared | conj |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 trees | acl:relcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 stood | compound:prt |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sat | cc |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stood | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 sat | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fields | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fields | cc |
| 29 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | obl |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 wobbled | nsubj |
| 31 | wobbled | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 fields | acl:relcl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 spun | cc |
| 33 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 wobbled | conj |
| 34 | round | round | ADV | _ | 33 spun | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 round | cc |
| 36 | round | round | ADV | _ | 34 round | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 world | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 world | det |
| 39 | giddily | giddily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 world | amod |
| 40 | swirling | swirl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 world | amod |
| 41 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 spun | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | things = thing | again | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | things's straining eyes | dim property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | things = thing | trees | fields obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | stand up | past | trees | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sit down | past | trees not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | wobble | past | fields | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | spin | past | fields not said here | a giddily swirling world | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in world=Trajectory | |||
| 8 | swirl | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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