Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 22

Not a round-eyed creature of the night might pierce an inch of that multiplied gloom.

Who acts: eyed creature · What happens: pierce, multiply · To what, where: inch

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 (eyed creature), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 creature	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 creature	det
3	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eyed	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 round	punct
5	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	amod
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pierce	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creature	nmod
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 pierce	aux
11	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 inch	det
13	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pierce	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 gloom	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 gloom	det
16	multiplied	multiply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 gloom	amod
17	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inch	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 pierce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pierce	might	a eyed creature of the night	a inch of that multiplied gloom					vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inch=Patient
2	multiply	participle							vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: 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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