Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 14

No words can describe how delightful Muirne was--she took the branch; and as to Tuiren, a man could not look at her without becoming angry or dejected.

Who acts: words, mother, man · What happens: describe, be, take, not look, become, deject · To what, where: branch

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, mother, 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 describe	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 describe	aux
4	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 delightful	advmod
6	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 describe	ccomp
7	Muirne	Muirne	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 delightful	flat
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 delightful	cop
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 describe	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 branch	det
13	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 look	cc
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 Tuiren	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Tuiren	case
18	Tuiren	Tuiren	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 look	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Tuiren	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 look	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 look	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 look	advmod
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 describe	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 look	obl
27	without	without	SCONJ	_	28 becoming	mark
28	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 look	advcl
29	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 becoming	xcomp
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 dejected	cc
31	dejected	deject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 angry	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 describe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	can	no words			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	no words not said here		delightful property	tree rules
3	take	past	mother	the branch		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
4	not look	could	a man		as Tuiren; at mother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at her=Theme
5	become	gerund	a man not said here		angry property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	deject	participle	a man not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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