Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 18
But the cleric stared at her glumly, forbiddingly, and resumed his story at a gesture.
Who acts: cleric · What happens: stare, resume · To what, where: story, gesture
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cleric), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1330): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 stared | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cleric | det |
| 3 | cleric | cleric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stared | nsubj |
| 4 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stared | obl |
| 7 | glumly | glumly | ADV | _ | 4 stared | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forbiddingly | punct |
| 9 | forbiddingly | forbiddingly | ADV | _ | 7 glumly | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 resumed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 resumed | cc |
| 12 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stared | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 story | nmod:poss |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resumed | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 gesture | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gesture | det |
| 17 | gesture | gesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resumed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the cleric | at terror; glumly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at her=Theme | ||||
| 2 | resume | past | the cleric not said here | king's story | a gesture | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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