Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 11
But after the first glance and greeting he did not look at her again, nor did he speak.
Who acts: man · What happens: not look, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 11 look | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 glance | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 glance | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 glance | amod |
| 5 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 greeting | cc |
| 7 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glance | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 look | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 look | advmod |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 look | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 speak | punct |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 speak | cc |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 speak | aux |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 speak | nsubj |
| 19 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 look | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | past · do-support | man | after the first glance and greeting; again | at danger | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · do-support | man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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