Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 1
BY his arts Conaran changed the sight of Fionn’s eyes, and he did the same for Cona’n.
Who acts: Conaran · What happens: change, do, sight · To what, where: sight, same, eyes
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conaran), 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 | BY | by | ADP | _ | 3 arts | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 arts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 changed | obl |
| 4 | Conaran | Conaran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | nsubj |
| 5 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Fionn | case |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 did | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 changed | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 same | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 did | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Cona’n | case |
| 19 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 did | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Conaran | the sight of Fionn's eyes | by his arts | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | past | Conaran | the same | for Cona’n | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | sight | Fionn's eyes | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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