Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 32
The cleric again looked at her coldly, with a harsh-lidded, small-set, grey-eyed glare, and waited for the king’s reply.
Who acts: cleric, king · What happens: look, lid, wait, reply
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cleric | det |
| 2 | cleric | cleric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 coldly | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coldly | nmod:poss |
| 7 | coldly | coldly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 set | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 set | det |
| 11 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lidded | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 harsh | punct |
| 13 | lidded | lid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 set | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 set | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 small | punct |
| 17 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 glare | punct |
| 19 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyed | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 grey | punct |
| 21 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 glare | amod |
| 22 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 waited | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 waited | cc |
| 25 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 reply | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 reply | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 king | case |
| 30 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 waited | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the cleric | again | at Becfola's coldly | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at coldly=Theme | |||
| 2 | lid | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | wait | past | the cleric not said here | for the king's reply | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply | the king | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=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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