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title: The watcher became then an eye, a rigidity, an intense out-thrusting… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The watcher became then an eye, a rigidity, an intense out-thrusting and ransacking of thin-spun distance. Who acts: watcher, thin spun distance. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 16

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The watcher became then an eye, a rigidity, an intense out-thrusting and ransacking of thin-spun distance.

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**Who acts:** watcher, thin spun distance · **What happens:** become, spin, thrust · **To what, where:** eye

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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 (watcher, thin spun distance), 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:pg2892:54:16
# text = The watcher became then an eye, a rigidity, an intense out-thrusting and ransacking of thin-spun distance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	watcher	watcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rigidity	rigidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	intense	intense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	thrusting	thrusting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ransacking	ransacking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the watcher | a eye and a rigidity |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **spin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **thrust** |  | thin spun distance |  |  |  |  |  | nom thrusting «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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