Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 21
He may have smiled at them, and coaxed, and hung back.
Who acts: boy · What happens: smile, coax, hang back
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:362): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smiled | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 smiled | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 smiled | aux |
| 4 | smiled | smile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smiled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coaxed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 coaxed | cc |
| 9 | coaxed | coax | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 smiled | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hung | cc |
| 12 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 smiled | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 hung | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | may · perfect | boy | at women = woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | coax | participle | boy not said here | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hang back | participle | boy not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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