Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 2
From those dark-green surges there gaped at him monstrous and cavernous jaws; and round, wicked, red-rimmed, bulging eyes stared fixedly at the boat.
Who acts: wicked · What happens: gape, rim, bulge, stare · To what, where: monstrous jaws, green surges, eyes
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 6 surges | case |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 surges | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 green | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 dark | punct |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 surges | amod |
| 6 | surges | surge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gaped | obl |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 gaped | advmod |
| 8 | gaped | gape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gaped | obl |
| 11 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 jaws | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cavernous | cc |
| 13 | cavernous | cavernous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 monstrous | conj |
| 14 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gaped | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 wicked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wicked | cc |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 wicked | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wicked | punct |
| 19 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stared | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rimmed | punct |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rimmed | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 red | punct |
| 23 | rimmed | rim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wicked | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bulging | punct |
| 25 | bulging | bulge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 stared | conj |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bulging | obj |
| 27 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gaped | parataxis |
| 28 | fixedly | fixedly | ADV | _ | 27 stared | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 boat | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 boat | det |
| 31 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stared | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gape | past | monstrous jaws | that green surges; there | at him = he | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Theme | |||
| 2 | rim | participle | wicked not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bulge | gerund | wicked not said here | eyes | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stare | past | wicked | at the boat; fixedly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boat=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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