Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 8
So she stood on the yard fence and blessed him as far as her eyes could see him.
Who acts: Damer, eyes · What happens: stand, bless, see · To what, where: yard fence, Jack
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Damer, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 fence | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fence | det |
| 6 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fence | compound |
| 7 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 blessed | cc |
| 9 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 blessed | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 blessed | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 far | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Damer | the yard fence | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fence=Location | ||||
| 2 | bless | past | Damer not said here | Jack | far property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | could | Damer's eyes | Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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