Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 12

As the dogs had looked at him on the chase with a look that he did not understand, so she looked at him, and in her regard there was a question that baffled him and a statement which he could not follow.

Who acts: Chief, woman, question · What happens: look, not understand, be, baffle, not follow, regard · To what, where: dogs, chase, look, question, regard, Chief

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 (Chief, woman, question), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 looked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dogs	det
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looked	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	aux
5	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 looked	advcl
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	on	on	ADP	_	10 chase	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chase	det
10	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 look	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 look	det
13	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chase	nmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 understand	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 understand	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 understand	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 understand	advmod
18	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 look	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 looked	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 question	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 question	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 regard	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 regard	nmod:poss
29	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 question	obl
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 was	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 question	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 question	det
33	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	parataxis
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 baffled	nsubj
35	baffled	baffle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 question	acl:relcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 baffled	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 statement	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 statement	det
39	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 question	conj
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 follow	obj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 follow	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 follow	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 follow	advmod
44	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 question	acl:relcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past · perfect · passive		the dogs	the chase with a look	at Chief	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	not understand	past · do-support	Chief	a look not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus
3	look	past	woman			at Chief	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
4	is a	past		a question and a statement	woman's regard		tree rules
5	baffle	past	a question and a statement	Chief			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	not follow	could	Chief	a question and a statement			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
7	regard		woman				nom regard «cognition transitive»: 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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