Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 41
She was smiling to herself secretly, for she had seen what the mortal eyes around could not see.
Who acts: Becuma, mortal eyes · What happens: smile, see, not see · To what, where: Becuma · Speech: someone speaks here
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, mortal eyes), 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 | 3 smiling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smiling | aux |
| 3 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 smiling | obl |
| 6 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 3 smiling | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 seen | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 smiling | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 see | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eyes | det |
| 14 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 see | nsubj |
| 16 | around | around | ADV | _ | 19 see | advmod |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 see | advmod |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seen | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past · progressive | Becuma | Becuma | secretly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | Becuma | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not see | could | the mortal eyes | around property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=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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