--- title: But the sight of this youth left her without the desire to eat, and,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But the sight of this youth left her without the desire to eat, and, as for sleep, she dreaded it, for if she closed an eye she would be robbed of the one delight in time, which was to look at this young man, and not to cease looking at him while her eye could peer or her head could remain upright. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/42/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/42/) / 18 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 18 But the sight of this youth left her without the desire to eat, and, as for sleep, she dreaded it, for if she closed an eye she would be robbed of the one delight in time, which was to look at this young man, and not to cease looking at him while her eye could peer or her head could remain upright. **Who acts:** sight, Crimthann, eye, one delight, head · **What happens:** leave, eat, dread, close, rob, be · **To what, where:** Crimthann, sight, eye, youth This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Crimthann, eye, one delight), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:42:18 # text = But the sight of this youth left her without the desire to eat, and, as for sleep, she dreaded it, for if she closed an eye she would be robbed of the one delight in time, which was to look at this young man, and not to cease looking at him while her eye could peer or her head could remain upright. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 without without ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 dreaded dread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 closed close VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 robbed rob VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 parataxis _ _ 46 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 det _ _ 48 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 52 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 54 advmod _ _ 53 to to PART TO _ 54 mark _ _ 54 cease cease VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 55 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 54 xcomp _ _ 56 at at ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 obl _ _ 58 while while SCONJ IN _ 62 mark _ _ 59 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 60 nmod:poss _ _ 60 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ _ 61 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 62 aux _ _ 62 peer peer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 55 advcl _ _ 63 or or CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 64 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 65 nmod:poss _ _ 65 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj _ _ 66 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 67 aux _ _ 67 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 conj _ _ 68 upright upright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | the sight of this youth | Crimthann | | | | without the desire | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the sight of this youth *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dread** | past | Crimthann | sight | | | | as sleep | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **close** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Crimthann | a eye | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 5 | **rob** | would · passive | a eye *not said here* | Crimthann | | | | of the one delight in time | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of delight=Source | | 6 | **is** | past | the one delight in time | | | | | at this young man; look *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **cease** | to-infinitive | the one delight in time *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **look** | gerund | the one delight in time *not said here* | | | | | at man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 9 | **peer** | could | Crimthann's eye | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **remain** | could | Crimthann's head | | | | | upright *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **sight** | | | this youth | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/42/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/42/19/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/42/)