Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 41

Nevertheless, it was upon his ward that the lady’s gaze rested, and if the king could scarcely look away from her, she could, but only with an equal effort, look away from Crimthann.

Who acts: eye, gaze, king, lady · What happens: be, rest, look away, gaze

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, gaze, king, lady), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	7 ward	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ward	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ward	cop
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 ward	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ward	nmod:poss
7	ward	ward	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rested	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 rested	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gaze	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 lady	case
12	gaze	gaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rested	nsubj
13	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 look	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 look	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 look	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 look	aux
20	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	21 look	advmod
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 could	advcl
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 look	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 away	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 look	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 could	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 look	aux
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 effort	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 effort	cc
30	only	only	ADV	_	34 effort	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 effort	case
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 effort	det
33	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 effort	amod
34	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 could	appos
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 effort	punct
36	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 rested	conj
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 look	advmod
38	from	from	ADP	_	39 Crimthann	case
39	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 look	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	eye	upon King's ward; nevertheless property	tree rules
2	rest	past	the lady's gaze		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look away a condition, not said to happen	could	the king	away, scarcely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	look away	could	the lady's gaze not said here	from Crimthann; away property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from crimthann=Theme
5	gaze		the lady		nom gaze «act intransitive»: 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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