Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 18

He was thus gazing and brooding when one day he observed a coracle drawing to the shore.

Who acts: Ireland, coracle · What happens: gaze, brood, observe, draw · To what, where: coracle, shore

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ireland, coracle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gazing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gazing	aux
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 gazing	advmod
4	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brooding	cc
6	brooding	brood	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gazing	conj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 observed	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 observed	obl:unmarked
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 observed	nsubj
11	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brooding	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 coracle	det
13	coracle	coracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 observed	obj
14	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 coracle	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 shore	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drawing	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gazing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past · progressive	Ireland				thus property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	brood	gerund	Ireland not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	observe	past	Ireland	a coracle		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent coracle=Topic
4	draw	gerund	a coracle not said here		the shore			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to shore=Destination

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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