Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 44
It was sad to see the beautiful, slender dog standing shivering and astonished, and sad to see the lovely eyes that looked out pitifully in terror and amazement.
Who acts: It, beautiful slender dog, lovely eyes · What happens: be, see, stand, look out · To what, where: beautiful slender dog, shivering, lovely eyes, terror
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, beautiful slender dog, lovely eyes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sad | cop |
| 3 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sad | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dog | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dog | amod |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 dog | acl |
| 12 | shivering | shivering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 astonished | cc |
| 14 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shivering | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sad | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sad | cc |
| 17 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sad | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sad | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eyes | det |
| 21 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 see | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 looked | nsubj |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 looked | compound:prt |
| 26 | pitifully | pitifully | ADV | _ | 24 looked | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 terror | case |
| 28 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looked | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 amazement | cc |
| 30 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 terror | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the beautiful slender dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | the beautiful slender dog not said here | shivering | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shivering=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | the lovely eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | look out | past | the lovely eyes | terror and amazement | pitifully property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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