Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 4
As she stood within the doorway, smiling, and shy as a flower, beautifully timid as a fawn, the Chief communed with his heart.
Who acts: woman, Chief · What happens: stand, smile, commune
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 (woman, Chief), 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 | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 doorway | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 doorway | det |
| 6 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 smiling | punct |
| 8 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shy | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shy | cc |
| 11 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 flower | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flower | det |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shy | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 timid | punct |
| 16 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 17 timid | advmod |
| 17 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shy | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 fawn | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fawn | det |
| 20 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 timid | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 communed | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Chief | det |
| 23 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 communed | nsubj |
| 24 | communed | commune | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 timid | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 heart | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 communed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | woman | within the doorway | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | woman not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | commune | past | the Chief | with Chief's heart | tree rules |
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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