Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 38
“Wait,” he breathed, “wait until I screw into one other inch of sight.”
Who acts: you, eye, Hog · What happens: wait, breathe, screw
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 (you, eye, Hog), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 breathed | nsubj |
| 6 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wait | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wait | punct |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | parataxis |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 screw | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 screw | nsubj |
| 12 | screw | screw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wait | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 inch | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 inch | nummod |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 inch | amod |
| 16 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 screw | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inch | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | breathe | past | eye | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | screw in a quote | present | Hog | into one other inch of sight | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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