Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 15

But if the young man did not look at her she looked well at him, and what she saw pleased her so much that she had no time for further cogitation.

Who acts: young man, Becfola · What happens: not look, look, see, have · To what, where: danger

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 (young man, Becfola), 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	_	12 looked	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 look	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 look	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 look	advmod
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 looked	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 look	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 looked	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 what	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 what	cc
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 looked	parataxis
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
21	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 saw	xcomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	obj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADV	_	20 saw	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 much	advcl
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 cogitation	case
31	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cogitation	amod
32	cogitation	cogitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 time	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not look a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	the young man			at Becfola	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
2	look	past	Becfola			at man; well property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
3	see	past	Becfola	danger		pleased property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	have	past	Becfola		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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