Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 13

There I stooped to drink at a pool, and I saw myself in the chill water.

Who acts: I · What happens: stoop, drink, see · To what, where: pool, myself, chill water

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 stooped	expl
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 stooped	nsubj
3	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 drink	mark
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stooped	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 pool	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pool	det
8	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stooped	conj
13	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 saw	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
16	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 water	compound
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stoop	past	I		there	tree rules
2	drink	to-infinitive	I not said here		a pool	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	I	myself	the chill water	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus

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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