Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 6

How would he look if he saw your pointy ears, your long thin snout, your shivering, skinny legs, and your long grey tail.

Who acts: lover, your · What happens: look, see, shiver · To what, where: pointy ears

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover, your), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 look	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 saw	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 look	advcl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ears	nmod:poss
9	pointy	pointy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ears	amod
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 snout	punct
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 snout	nmod:poss
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 snout	amod
14	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 snout	amod
15	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shivering	punct
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shivering	nmod:poss
18	shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snout	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 legs	punct
20	skinny	skinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 legs	amod
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 snout	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tail	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tail	cc
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tail	nmod:poss
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tail	amod
26	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tail	amod
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	would	lover			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see a condition, not said to happen	past	lover	your pointy ears	your long thin snout and your shivering and skinny legs obl; your long grey tail obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus
3	shiver		your			nom shivering «state intransitive»: poss=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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