Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 1

Duv Laca and the King of Leinster went apart then to speak together, and the eye of the king seemed to be as big as a plate, so fevered was it and so enlarged and inflamed by the look of Duv Laca.

Who acts: Duv, eye · What happens: go, speak, seem, be, fever, inflame · To what, where: eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, eye), 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	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
2	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Duv	flat
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 King	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Duv	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Leinster	case
7	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 King	nmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 went	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 speak	mark
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	advcl
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 speak	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seemed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 seemed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eye	det
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seemed	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 king	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eye	nmod
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	25 big	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 big	cop
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 big	advmod
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seemed	xcomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 plate	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 plate	det
28	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 big	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fevered	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 fevered	advmod
31	fevered	fever	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 seemed	conj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 it	cop
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fevered	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 enlarged	cc
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 enlarged	advmod
36	enlarged	enlarged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fevered	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 inflamed	cc
38	inflamed	inflame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 enlarged	conj
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 look	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 look	det
41	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 inflamed	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 Duv	case
43	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 look	nmod
44	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Duv	flat
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Duv and the King of Leinster		then	apart property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Duv and the King of Leinster not said here			together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	the eye of the king				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	the eye of the king not said here			as a plate; big property	tree rules
5	fever	participle	the eye of the king not said here				tree rules
6	is a	past		eye			tree rules
7	inflame	participle	the eye of the king not said here			by the look of Duv	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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