Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 29
When I look in her eyes I am tormented because I am not looking at her lips, and when I see her lips my soul cries out, ‘Look at her eyes, look at her eyes.’”
Who acts: I, soul · What happens: look, torment, not look, see, cry out · To what, where: I, hand
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, soul), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 look | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tormented | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tormented | aux:pass |
| 9 | tormented | torment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 looking | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 looking | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 looking | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 looking | advmod |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tormented | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 lips | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 see | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 cries | parataxis |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 soul | nmod:poss |
| 26 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cries | nsubj |
| 27 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 cries | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Look | punct |
| 30 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 Look | punct |
| 31 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 cries | advcl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 eyes | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Look | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 look | punct |
| 36 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 Look | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 eyes | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 look | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 cries | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 cries | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 cries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | I | in hand's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | torment | present · passive | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not look | present · progressive | I | at hand's lips | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lip=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | present | I | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cry out speech: express | present | my soul | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | look | infinitive | my soul not said here | at hand's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at eye=Theme | ||||
| 7 | look | infinitive | my soul not said here | at hand's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at eye=Theme |
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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