Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 10

The abbot’s eyes glistened when he heard that.

Who acts: eyes · What happens: glisten, hear · To what, where: that

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 abbot	det
2	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eyes	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 abbot	case
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heard	nsubj
5	glistened	glisten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 heard	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 heard	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glisten	participle							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	the abbot's eyes	that					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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