Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 9
But at that moment the king lifted his head from the pillow and looked kindly at her.
Who acts: king · What happens: lift, look · To what, where: head, pillow
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | _ | 7 lifted | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | nsubj |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 pillow | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pillow | det |
| 12 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | conj |
| 15 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 14 looked | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the king | king's head | the pillow | moment | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme from pillow=Destination | ||
| 2 | look | past | the king not said here | at Becfola; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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