Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 2
The captain stared at her, as he well might, for he had never seen or imagined to see a woman so beautiful as this was.
Who acts: captain · What happens: stare, not be, imagine, see · To what, where: woman
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 (captain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stared | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 might | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 might | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 might | nsubj |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 might | advmod |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stared | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 seen | advmod |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 stared | parataxis |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 imagined | cc |
| 18 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 seen | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 imagined | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 see | xcomp |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 this | case |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 beautiful | obl |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | cop |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the captain | at woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | captain | see property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | imagine | participle | captain not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | captain not said here | a woman | beautiful property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=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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