Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 13
The lesser gentlemen looked under their brows at the greater champions, and these peered furtively at the greatest of all.
Who acts: lesser gentlemen, greatest · What happens: look, peer · To what, where: these
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 (lesser gentlemen, greatest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gentlemen | det |
| 2 | lesser | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 gentlemen | amod |
| 3 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 brows | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brows | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 champions | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 champions | det |
| 10 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 champions | amod |
| 11 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 peered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 peered | cc |
| 14 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 peered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | peered | peer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 looked | conj |
| 16 | furtively | furtively | ADV | _ | 15 peered | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 greatest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 greatest | det |
| 19 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 peered | obl:agent |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 greatest | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the lesser gentlemen | at the greater champions; under gentlemen's brows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under brow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | peer | participle · passive | the greatest | these | furtively property | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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