Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 27

She sat then, biting on her lip with her white small teeth and staring angrily at Art.

Who acts: game · What happens: sit, bite, stare · To what, where: lip

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 (game), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sat	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 biting	punct
5	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 lip	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lip	nmod:poss
8	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 biting	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teeth	amod
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teeth	amod
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 biting	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 staring	cc
15	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 biting	conj
16	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	15 staring	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 Art	case
18	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 staring	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	game		then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bite	gerund	game not said here	game's lip		with game's white small teeth	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with tooth=Instrument
3	stare	gerund	game not said here			at Art; angrily property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at art=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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