Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 24

“But Fionn cannot see us,” Caevo’g objected, and her brow set downwards and her chin set upwards and her mouth squeezed sidewards, so that her face looked like a badly disappointed nut.

Who acts: Fionn, Caevo’g, brow, chin, mouth, face · What happens: not see, object, set, squeeze, look · To what, where: us, sidewards · 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 (Fionn, Caevo’g, brow, chin), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 Fionn	cc
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 objected	ccomp
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
10	Caevo’g	Caevo'g	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 objected	nsubj
11	objected	object	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brow	nmod:poss
15	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	nsubj
16	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 objected	conj
17	downwards	downwards	ADV	_	16 set	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 set	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 chin	nmod:poss
20	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	nsubj
21	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 set	conj
22	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	21 set	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 squeezed	cc
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mouth	nmod:poss
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 squeezed	nsubj
26	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 set	conj
27	sidewards	sideward	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 squeezed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 looked	punct
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 looked	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 face	nmod:poss
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	nsubj
33	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 squeezed	conj
34	like	like	ADP	_	38 nut	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 nut	det
36	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 disappointed	advmod
37	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 nut	amod
38	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 objected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see in a quote	can	Fionn	us		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
2	object speech: other	past	Caevo’g			vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	set	past	jaw's brow		downwards property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	set	past	jaw's chin		upwards property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	squeeze	past	jaw's mouth	sidewards		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sideward=Theme
6	look	past	jaw's face		like a disappointed nut	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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