Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 19

“Am I not as sweet as the daughter of Morgan?” she demanded, and she stood before him queenly and pleadingly, and her eyes took his with imperious tenderness.

Who acts: Morgan, eyes · What happens: not be, demand, stand, take · To what, where: Art · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morgan, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 sweet	punct
2	Am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sweet	cop
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sweet	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sweet	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 sweet	advmod
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 demanded	ccomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 daughter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 daughter	det
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sweet	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Morgan	case
11	Morgan	Morgan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sweet	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 sweet	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 demanded	nsubj
15	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stood	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 demanded	conj
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	obl
22	queenly	queenly	ADV	_	19 stood	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pleadingly	cc
24	pleadingly	pleadingly	ADV	_	22 queenly	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 eyes	nmod:poss
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 demanded	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 took	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 tenderness	case
32	imperious	imperious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tenderness	amod
33	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 demanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Morgan			as the daughter of Morgan; sweet property	tree rules
2	demand speech: request	past	Morgan				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	Morgan		before Art	queenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
4	take	past	Morgan's eyes	Art		with imperious tenderness	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent his=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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