Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 37

But the eagle-eyed watcher watched until his eyes narrowed and became pin-points, and he ceased to be a man and became an optic.

Who acts: eyed watcher, eyes, eye · What happens: watch, narrow, become, cease, be · To what, where: pin points, man

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 watcher, eyes, eye), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 watched	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watcher	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eyed	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 eagle	punct
5	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 watcher	amod
6	watcher	watcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watched	nsubj
7	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 narrowed	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 narrowed	nsubj
11	narrowed	narrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watched	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 became	cc
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 narrowed	conj
14	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 points	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 pin	punct
16	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 became	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ceased	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ceased	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ceased	nsubj
20	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watched	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	24 man	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 man	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ceased	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 became	cc
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ceased	conj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 optic	det
28	optic	optic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	watch	past	the eyed watcher			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	narrow	past	watcher's eyes			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	become	past	watcher's eyes not said here	pin points		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	cease	past	eye			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	is a	to-infinitive	eye not said here	a man		tree rules
6	become	past	eye not said here		optic property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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