--- title: And he sat forward, seeing all, seeing none, with his mouth drooping… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And he sat forward, seeing all, seeing none, with his mouth drooping open, and such a wildness and bristle lowering from that great glum brow that the champions shivered as though already in the chill of death, and were silent. Who acts: man, mouth, chill. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/32/) [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 VI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/) / 32 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 32 And he sat forward, seeing all, seeing none, with his mouth drooping open, and such a wildness and bristle lowering from that great glum brow that the champions shivered as though already in the chill of death, and were silent. **Who acts:** man, mouth, chill · **What happens:** sit, see, droop, bristle, lower, shiver · **To what, where:** all, none, great glum brow, champions This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, mouth, chill), 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:pg2892:53:32 # text = And he sat forward, seeing all, seeing none, with his mouth drooping open, and such a wildness and bristle lowering from that great glum brow that the champions shivered as though already in the chill of death, and were silent. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 forward forward ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 10 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 drooping droop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 21 det:predet _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 wildness wildness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 bristle bristle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 lowering lower VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 xcomp _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 glum glum ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 brow brow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 nmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 champions champion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 parataxis _ _ 33 shivered shiver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 35 though though ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 36 already already ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 chill chill NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | man | | | | | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | gerund | man *not said here* | all | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | | 3 | **see** | gerund | man *not said here* | none | | | | with man's mouth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus | | 4 | **droop** | gerund | man's mouth *not said here* | | | | | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bristle** | present | man *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lower** | gerund | man *not said here* | | | great glum brow | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from brow=Destination | | 7 | **shiver** | participle | | the champions *not said here* | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **is** | past | the chill of death | | | | | silent, though *property* | tree rules | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/33/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/53/)