Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 28
Looking over his guests, Conn observed that a young man was yet standing.
Who acts: Conn, young man · What happens: look, observe, stand
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, young man), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 observed | advcl |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 guests | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 guests | nmod:poss |
| 4 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Looking | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 6 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 observed | nsubj |
| 7 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 standing | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 standing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 standing | aux |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 standing | advmod |
| 14 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 observed | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | Conn not said here | over room's guests | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over guest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | observe | past | Conn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | a young man | yet | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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