Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 19

She was looking back at me all the time and she was crying so bitterly that any one would pity her.

Who acts: deer, one · What happens: look back, cry, pity · To what, where: deer

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, one), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	aux
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 looking	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 looking	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 crying	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 crying	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crying	aux
13	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 looking	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 bitterly	advmod
15	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	13 crying	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 pity	mark
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pity	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 pity	aux
20	pity	pity	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 crying	ccomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pity	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look back	past · progressive	deer		time	at me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	deer			bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pity	would	any one	deer			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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