Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 22
“With unswerving forehead and steady eye I met all that came.
Who acts: I, that · What happens: unswerv, meet, come
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 forehead | case |
| 3 | unswerving | unswerv | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 forehead | amod |
| 4 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 eye | cc |
| 6 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eye | amod |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forehead | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 met | nsubj |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 came | det:predet |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unswerv in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | meet in a quote | past | I | with unswerving forehead and steady eye | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with forehead=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | that | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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