Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 57
But the lady stared as royally on the High King as the High King did on her, and, whatever it was he saw in those lovely eyes, the king did not insist.
Who acts: lady, High King, information, king · What happens: stare, do, be, not insist · To what, where: lovely eyes
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 (lady, High King, information, king), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 stared | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stared | nsubj |
| 4 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 royally | advmod |
| 6 | royally | royally | ADV | _ | 4 stared | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 9 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 King | amod |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stared | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 did | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 13 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 King | amod |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stared | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whatever | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 whatever | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whatever | punct |
| 21 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 stared | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | cop |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 27 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 eyes | det |
| 28 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyes | amod |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 saw | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 insist | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 insist | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 insist | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 insist | advmod |
| 35 | insist | insist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 saw | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the lady | on the High King; royally property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on king=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the High King | on lady | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | information | that lovely eyes | see property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not insist speech: other | past · do-support | the king | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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