Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 18
And the two men stared into the hillside as though what they were looking at was too wonderful to be looked away from.
Who acts: two men, men · What happens: stare, look, be, look away
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men, men), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stared | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stared | nsubj |
| 5 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 hillside | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hillside | det |
| 8 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stared | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 stared | advmod |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 looking | mark |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 looking | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looking | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 looking | aux |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stared | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 wonderful | case |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wonderful | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 wonderful | advmod |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looking | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 looked | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 looked | aux:pass |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 wonderful | advcl |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 looked | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 away | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the two men | into the hillside | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into hillside=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | men = man | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | wonderful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look away | to-infinitive · passive | away property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» |
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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