Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 10

The poet had a shallow osier basket on his arm, and on his face there was a look that was at once triumphant and gloomy.

Who acts: poet, look · What happens: have, be · To what, where: shallow osier basket, arm, face

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet, look), 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:pg2892:582): 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 poet	det
2	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 basket	det
5	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 basket	amod
6	osier	osier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 basket	compound
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 arm	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 arm	nmod:poss
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 basket	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 face	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 face	nmod:poss
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	obl
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 look	det
19	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 triumphant	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 triumphant	cop
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 triumphant	advmod
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 at	fixed
24	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 look	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gloomy	cc
26	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 triumphant	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the poet	a shallow osier basket	poet's arm		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
2	be	past	a look		poet's face; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location
3	is	past	a look			triumphant property	tree rules
4	be		a look not said here				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: 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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