Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 19
Becuma, looking down on his beautiful head, smiled as much in rage as in disdain.
Who acts: Becuma · What happens: look down, smile · To what, where: much, rage
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becuma), 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 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 smiled | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Becuma | punct |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Becuma | acl |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 looking | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 head | amod |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Becuma | punct |
| 10 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 smiled | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 rage | case |
| 14 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smiled | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 disdain | case |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 disdain | case |
| 17 | disdain | disdain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smiled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | gerund | Becuma not said here | on prince's beautiful head; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | Becuma | much | rage | as disdain | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic |
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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