Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11

He looked with one eye at the light that stole greyly through the window, and recognised that it could not in justice be called light.

Who acts: companion, light · What happens: look, steal, recognise, not call · To what, where: window, bird, justice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companion, light), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 eye	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 eye	nummod
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 stole	nsubj
10	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 light	acl:relcl
11	greyly	greyly	ADV	_	10 stole	advmod
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 window	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stole	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 recognised	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 recognised	cc
17	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 called	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 called	nsubj:pass
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 called	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 called	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 justice	case
23	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	obl
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 called	aux:pass
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 recognised	ccomp
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	companion			with one eye; at the light	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at light=Theme
2	steal	past	the light		the window	greyly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location
3	recognise	past	companion not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not call	could · passive		bird	justice		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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