Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 6
“I will look myself,” said Fionn, and his great brow bent forward and gloomed afar.
Who acts: Fionn, great brow · What happens: look, say, bend, gloom · To what, where: Fionn, afar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fionn, great brow), 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 | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 look | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bent | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brow | amod |
| 14 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bent | nsubj |
| 15 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 15 bent | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gloomed | cc |
| 18 | gloomed | gloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bent | conj |
| 19 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gloomed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | future | Fionn | Fionn | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme myself=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bend | participle | Fionn's great brow | forward property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | gloom | participle | Fionn's great brow not said here | afar | 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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