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title: For it seemed as if the watcher stared with his whole face, aye, and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For it seemed as if the watcher stared with his whole face, aye, and with his hands; but Fionn brooded weightedly on distance with his puckered and crannied brow. Who acts: it, watcher, Fionn. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 10

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For it seemed as if the watcher stared with his whole face, aye, and with his hands; but Fionn brooded weightedly on distance with his puckered and crannied brow.

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**Who acts:** it, watcher, Fionn · **What happens:** seem, stare, brood, pucker, cranny

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, watcher, Fionn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2892:54:10
# text = For it seemed as if the watcher stared with his whole face, aye, and with his hands; but Fionn brooded weightedly on distance with his puckered and crannied brow.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	watcher	watcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	brooded	brood	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	weightedly	weightedly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
29	puckered	pucker	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	crannied	cranny	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
32	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  | with watcher's hands | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stare** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the watcher |  |  |  |  | with watcher's whole face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **brood** | past | Fionn |  |  |  |  | on distance with Fionn's puckered brow; weightedly *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on distance=Topic |
| 4 | **pucker** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **cranny** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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