Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 56

Then, sitting on a branch, she looked with angry woe at the straining and snarling horde below, seeing many a white fang in those grinning jowls, and the smouldering, red blink of those leaping and prowling eyes.

Who acts: mistress · What happens: sit, look, see, grin, leap, prowl · To what, where: branch, many, leaping eyes

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 (mistress), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sitting	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sitting	punct
3	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 looked	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 branch	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 branch	det
6	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sitting	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 woe	case
11	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woe	amod
12	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 straining	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 straining	det
15	straining	straining	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 horde	cc
17	snarling	snarling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 horde	compound
18	horde	horde	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 straining	conj
19	below	below	ADV	_	18 horde	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seeing	punct
21	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 looked	advcl
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seeing	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fang	det
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fang	amod
25	fang	fang	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 many	appos
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 jowls	case
27	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 jowls	det
28	grinning	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 jowls	amod
29	jowls	jowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fang	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 smouldering	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 smouldering	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 smouldering	det
33	smouldering	smouldering	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 blink	punct
35	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 blink	amod
36	blink	blink	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 smouldering	appos
37	of	of	ADP	_	42 eyes	case
38	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 eyes	det
39	leaping	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 eyes	amod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 prowling	cc
41	prowling	prowl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 leaping	conj
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 blink	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	mistress not said here		a branch	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location
2	look	past	mistress				with angry woe; at the straining and snarling horde	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at straining=Theme
3	see	gerund	mistress not said here	many				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus
4	grin	gerund						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	leap	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	prowl	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	blink			that leaping eyes				nom blink «act transitive»: of=patient

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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