Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 42

He touched her with his finger, and the instant he touched her all dilapidation and wryness and age went from her, and she became so beautiful that one dared scarcely look on her, and so young that she seemed but sixteen years of age.

Who acts: Mongan, instant, dilapidation, one · What happens: touch, go, become, look, seem · To what, where: cat

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, instant, dilapidation, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 finger	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 finger	nmod:poss
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 touched	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 touched	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 instant	det
10	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touched	nsubj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 touched	nsubj
12	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 touched	parataxis
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 touched	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 dilapidation	det
15	dilapidation	dilapidation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wryness	cc
17	wryness	wryness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dilapidation	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 age	cc
19	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dilapidation	conj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 touched	parataxis
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 became	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 touched	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 beautiful	advmod
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 look	mark
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 look	nsubj
31	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 look	aux
32	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	33 look	advmod
33	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 beautiful	advcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 look	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 young	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 young	cc
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 young	advmod
39	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	advcl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 seemed	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 seemed	nsubj
42	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 young	ccomp
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 years	cc
44	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 years	nummod
45	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 seemed	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 age	case
47	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 years	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	past	Mongan	cat	with Mongan's finger	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer with finger=Instrument
2	touch	past	the instant	cat		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme
3	go	past	all dilapidation and wryness and age		from instant	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from she=Initial_Location
4	become	past	instant		beautiful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	look	past	one		on instant; scarcely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on she=Theme
6	seem	past	instant			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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