Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5

She looked carefully in every direction to see if one might discover them in hiding; she looked closely and lingeringly at the shadows under distant trees to see if these shadows moved; and she listened on every wind to try if she could distinguish a yap or a yawn or a sneeze.

Who acts: lady, one, shadows · What happens: look, see, discover, hide, move, listen · To what, where: wolves, yap

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 (lady, one, shadows), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 direction	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 direction	det
6	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	advcl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 discover	mark
10	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 discover	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 discover	aux
12	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 see	ccomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 discover	obj
14	in	in	SCONJ	_	15 hiding	mark
15	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 discover	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
19	closely	closely	ADV	_	18 looked	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lingeringly	cc
21	lingeringly	lingeringly	ADV	_	19 closely	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 shadows	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shadows	det
24	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	obl
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 trees	case
26	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 trees	amod
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shadows	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 trees	acl
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 moved	mark
31	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 shadows	det
32	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 moved	nsubj
33	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 see	ccomp
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 listened	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 listened	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 listened	nsubj
37	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 wind	case
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 wind	det
40	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 listened	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 try	mark
42	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 listened	advcl
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 distinguish	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 distinguish	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 distinguish	aux
46	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 try	xcomp
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 yap	det
48	yap	yap	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 distinguish	obj
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 yawn	cc
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 yawn	det
51	yawn	yawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 yap	conj
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 sneeze	cc
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 sneeze	det
54	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 yap	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	lady		in every direction; carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	lady not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	discover a condition, not said to happen	might	one	wolves = wolf		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	hide	gerund	one not said here			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	past	lady		at the shadows under distant trees; closely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shadow=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	lady not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	move a condition, not said to happen	past	this shadows			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	listen	past	lady		on every wind	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on wind=Theme
9	try	to-infinitive	lady not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	distinguish a condition, not said to happen	could	lady	a yap or a yawn or a sneeze		vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute yap=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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