Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 18

It was then they looked at him, the look which he could not understand and had never seen on a chase.

Who acts: Heo’lan, Fionn · What happens: be, not understand, not see · To what, where: look, chase

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 (Heo’lan, Fionn), 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	5 looked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	cop
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 looked	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 look	det
10	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	conj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 understand	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 understand	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 understand	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 understand	advmod
15	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 look	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seen	cc
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 seen	advmod
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 looked	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 chase	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 chase	det
22	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Heo’lan = heo'lan			then	at Fionn; look property	tree rules
2	not understand	could	Fionn	the look				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
3	not see	past · perfect	Heo’lan = heo'lan not said here		a chase			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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