Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 11
Each man glanced uneasily on his neighbour and then stared at his wine-cup or his fingers.
Who acts: man · What happens: glance, stare
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glanced | nsubj |
| 3 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | uneasily | uneasily | ADV | _ | 3 glanced | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 neighbour | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glanced | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stared | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 stared | advmod |
| 10 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glanced | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 cup | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cup | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cup | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wine | punct |
| 15 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stared | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 fingers | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cup | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance | past | each man | on man's neighbour; uneasily property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on neighbour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | each man not said here | then | at man's wine cup or man's fingers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cup=Theme |
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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