Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 54

He may have blushed as he said it, for the king, possibly for the first time, was really looking at him, and was looking back through twenty years of time as he did so.

Who acts: Fionn, king · What happens: blush, say, look, look back, do · To what, where: countryman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, king), 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

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 blushed	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 blushed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 blushed	aux
4	blushed	blush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blushed	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 king	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looking	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
14	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	18 time	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 time	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 time	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 king	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 looking	aux
21	really	really	ADV	_	22 looking	advmod
22	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looking	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 looking	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 looking	aux
28	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 looking	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 looking	advmod
30	through	through	ADV	_	31 twenty	advmod
31	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 years	nummod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 looking	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 time	case
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 years	nmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 did	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 did	nsubj
37	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 looking	advcl
38	so	so	ADV	_	37 did	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	blush	may · perfect	Fionn				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Fionn	countryman			tree rules
3	look	past · progressive	the king for the first time			at Fionn	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
4	look back	past · progressive	the king for the first time not said here		year		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	do	past	Fionn				vn act-114-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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