Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 20
The eyes of women brightened and softened when they looked at me.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: brighten, soften, look
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eyes | det |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 women | case |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eyes | nmod |
| 5 | brightened | brighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 looked | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 softened | cc |
| 7 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brightened | conj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 looked | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brighten | participle | the eyes of women not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | soften | participle | the eyes of women not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the eyes of women | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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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