Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 13

After long staring on the hungry nothingness of air and water he would stare on the skin-stretched fabric of his boat as on a strangeness, or he would examine his hands and the texture of his skin and the stiff black hairs that grew behind his knuckles and sprouted around his ring, and he found in these things newness and wonder.

Who acts: fish, stiff black hairs · What happens: stare, stretch, examine, grow, sprout, find · To what, where: skin, hands, knuckles, ring, things newness

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, stiff black hairs), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	3 staring	mark
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 staring	amod
3	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 stare	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 nothingness	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nothingness	det
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothingness	amod
7	nothingness	nothingness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 staring	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 air	case
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothingness	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 water	cc
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothingness	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stare	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stare	aux
14	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	on	on	ADP	_	20 fabric	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fabric	det
17	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stretched	nsubj:pass
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 skin	punct
19	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fabric	amod
20	fabric	fabric	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stare	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 boat	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 boat	nmod:poss
23	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fabric	nmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 strangeness	case
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 strangeness	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 strangeness	det
27	strangeness	strangeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stare	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 examine	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 examine	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 examine	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 examine	aux
32	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stare	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hands	nmod:poss
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 examine	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 texture	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 texture	det
37	texture	texture	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hands	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 skin	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 skin	nmod:poss
40	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 texture	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 hairs	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 hairs	det
43	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 hairs	amod
44	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 hairs	amod
45	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 skin	conj
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 grew	nsubj
47	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 hairs	acl:relcl
48	behind	behind	ADP	_	50 knuckles	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 knuckles	nmod:poss
50	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 grew	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 sprouted	cc
52	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 grew	conj
53	around	around	ADP	_	55 ring	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 ring	nmod:poss
55	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sprouted	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 found	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 found	cc
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 found	nsubj
59	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stare	parataxis
60	in	in	ADP	_	63 newness	case
61	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	63 newness	det
62	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 newness	compound
63	newness	newness	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 found	obl
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 wonder	cc
65	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 newness	conj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 stare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stare	gerund	fish not said here			on the hungry nothingness of air and water	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on nothingness=Theme
2	stare	would	fish			as a strangeness; on the stretched fabric of fish's boat	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on fabric=Theme
3	stretch	participle · passive		skin			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	examine	would	fish	fish's hands and the texture of fish's skin and the stiff black hairs			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
5	grow	past	the stiff black hairs		fish's knuckles		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind knuckle=Location
6	sprout	past	the stiff black hairs not said here		fish's ring		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around ring=Location
7	find	past	fish		this things newness and wonder		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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