Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 74
Yet, even as he looked, a tear did well into those lovely eyes, and behind her brow a thought moved of the beautiful boy who was looking at her from the king’s side.
Who acts: past, tear, thought, beautiful boy · What happens: look, do, move · To what, where: lovely eyes, brow, side
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, tear, thought, beautiful boy), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yet | punct |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 looked | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tear | det |
| 9 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 did | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 eyes | det |
| 14 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 did | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 moved | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 moved | cc |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 brow | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brow | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moved | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 thought | det |
| 22 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moved | nsubj |
| 23 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 boy | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 boy | det |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 boy | amod |
| 27 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moved | obl |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 looking | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 looking | aux |
| 30 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 boy | acl:relcl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 looking | obl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 side | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 side | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 king | case |
| 37 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looking | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | past | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | past | a tear | that lovely eyes | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | move | past | a thought | wife's brow | of the beautiful boy | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme behind brow=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | look | past · progressive | the beautiful boy | the king's side | at wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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