Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 2

Mongan had just made a move of skill, and he looked up from the board to see if Duv Laca seemed as discontented as she had a right to be.

Who acts: Duv, she, skill · What happens: make, look up, see, seem, discontent, have · To what, where: Mongan, right

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 (Duv, she, skill), 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	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 move	det
6	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 skill	case
8	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 move	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 looked	compound:prt
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 board	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 board	det
16	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 looked	advcl
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 seemed	mark
20	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 seemed	nsubj
21	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Duv	flat
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 see	ccomp
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 discontented	advmod
24	discontented	discontent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 seemed	xcomp
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 discontented	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 right	det
29	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 be	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 right	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · passive		Mongan		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary move=Product
2	look up	past	Duv		from the board	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from board=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	Duv not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	seem a condition, not said to happen	past	Duv			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	discontent	participle	Duv not said here			tree rules
6	have	past	she	a right		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
7	move		skill			nom move «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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