Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 12
They did look at him, but it was a look which he could not comprehend.
Who acts: signs, glance, chase · What happens: look, be, not comprehend · To what, where: look
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 (signs, glance, chase), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 look | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 look | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 look | det |
| 11 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | conj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 comprehend | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 comprehend | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 comprehend | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 comprehend | advmod |
| 16 | comprehend | comprehend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 look | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | signs = sign | at chase | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | glance | a look | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not comprehend | could | chase | a look | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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