Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 4

Gentlemen looked at each other questioningly, and then spoke again on indifferent matters, but only with half of their minds.

Who acts: Gentlemen · What happens: look, speak, mind · To what, where: indifferent matters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gentlemen), 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	Gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 looked	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	questioningly	questioningly	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spoke	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spoke	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 spoke	advmod
10	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 spoke	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 matters	case
13	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 matters	amod
14	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 spoke	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 half	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 half	cc
17	only	only	ADV	_	19 half	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 half	case
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 looked	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 minds	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 minds	nmod:poss
22	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 half	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Gentlemen			at each; questioningly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past		indifferent matters	then; again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mind		Gentlemen = gentleman				nom mind «cognition 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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