Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 7
The watcher stood beside, staring with his tense face and unwinking, lidless eye.
Who acts: watcher · What happens: stand, stare
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 (watcher), 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 | 2 watcher | det |
| 2 | watcher | watcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 3 stood | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 staring | punct |
| 6 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tense | tense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 staring | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 unwinking | cc |
| 12 | unwinking | unwinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eye | punct |
| 14 | lidless | lidless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eye | amod |
| 15 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the watcher | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | the watcher not said here | with watcher's tense face and unwinking and lidless eye | 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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