Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 3

The eagle-eyed man lifted a face, thin and sharp as though it had been carven on the wind, and he stared forward with an immobile intentness.

Who acts: eyed man, man · What happens: lift, carven, stare · To what, where: face, wind

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 (eyed man, man), 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	5 man	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eyed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 eagle	punct
4	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifted	nsubj
6	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 face	det
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thin	punct
10	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lifted	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sharp	cc
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thin	conj
13	as	as	ADV	_	10 thin	advmod
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 carven	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carven	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 carven	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 carven	aux:pass
18	carven	carven	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lifted	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 wind	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wind	det
21	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carven	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stared	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stared	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stared	nsubj
25	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifted	conj
26	forward	forward	ADV	_	25 stared	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 intentness	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 intentness	det
29	immobile	immobile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 intentness	amod
30	intentness	intentness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stared	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	the eyed man	a face			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
2	carven	past · perfect · passive		face	the wind		tree rules
3	stare	past	man			with a immobile intentness; forward property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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