Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 21
Art then raised his head and stood up courteously, but he did not look at her.
Who acts: Art · What happens: raise, stand up, not look · To what, where: head
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 (Art), 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 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 raised | advmod |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stood | cc |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 stood | compound:prt |
| 9 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 7 stood | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 look | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 look | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 look | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 look | advmod |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 raised | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 look | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Art | Art's head | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand up | past | Art not said here | courteously property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not look | past · do-support | Art | at Becuma | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
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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