Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 23
Then they smiled a smile that was agreeable to their own eyes, but which would have been a deadly thing for anybody else to see.
Who acts: noses, smile · What happens: smile, be, see · To what, where: smile, deadly thing
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 (noses, smile), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 smiled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 smile | det |
| 5 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 agreeable | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 agreeable | cop |
| 8 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 smile | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 agreeable | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thing | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 thing | cc |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 thing | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 thing | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thing | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 thing | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thing | det |
| 20 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thing | amod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 anybody | case |
| 23 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 thing | nmod |
| 24 | else | else | ADV | _ | 23 anybody | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thing | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | noses = nose | a smile | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | a smile | to noses's own eyes; agreeable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | would · perfect | a deadly thing | for anybody | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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