Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 73
And he gazed on her benevolently and firmly and carefully when he said that, so that her regard could not stray otherwhere.
Who acts: past, regard, wife · What happens: gaze, say, not stray, regard · To what, where: otherwhere · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (past, regard, wife), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gazed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gazed | nsubj |
| 3 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 benevolently | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 benevolently | nmod:poss |
| 6 | benevolently | benevolently | ADV | _ | 3 gazed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 firmly | cc |
| 8 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 6 benevolently | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carefully | cc |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 6 benevolently | conj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 said | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gazed | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 stray | mark |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stray | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 stray | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 regard | nmod:poss |
| 19 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stray | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stray | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 stray | advmod |
| 22 | stray | stray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 23 | otherwhere | otherwhere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stray | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | past | benevolently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not stray | could | wife's regard | otherwhere | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location otherwhere=Theme | ||||
| 4 | regard | wife | nom regard «cognition transitive»: 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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