Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 29

“At times I drew near, delicately, standing among thick leaves or crouched in long grown grasses, and I stared and mourned as I looked on men.

Who acts: lumbering bear · What happens: draw, stand, crouch, grow, stare, mourn · To what, where: thick leaves, long grown grasses · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lumbering bear), 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	_	5 drew	punct
2	At	at	ADP	_	3 times	case
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drew	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	near	near	ADV	_	5 drew	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 delicately	punct
8	delicately	delicately	ADV	_	5 drew	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 standing	punct
10	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 drew	advcl
11	among	among	ADP	_	13 leaves	case
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 leaves	amod
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 standing	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 crouched	cc
15	crouched	crouch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 leaves	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 grasses	case
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grasses	amod
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 grasses	amod
19	grasses	grass	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crouched	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stared	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stared	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 stared	nsubj
23	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drew	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mourned	cc
25	mourned	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stared	conj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 looked	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 looked	nsubj
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 mourned	ccomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 men	case
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 looked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw in a quote	past	the lumbering bear = bear		time	delicately, near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand in a quote	gerund	the lumbering bear = bear not said here	thick leaves			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among leaf=Location
3	crouch in a quote	participle	the lumbering bear = bear not said here	long grown grasses			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Location
4	grow in a quote	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stare in a quote	past	the lumbering bear = bear				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	mourn in a quote	past	the lumbering bear = bear not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	look in a quote	past	the lumbering bear = bear			on men	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on man=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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