Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 24
The two priests stopped, and they stared straight in front of them, and then they looked at each other, and then they looked at the sky.
Who acts: two priests, men · What happens: stop, stare, look
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two priests, men), 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 | 3 priests | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 priests | nummod |
| 3 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stared | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stared | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stared | nsubj |
| 8 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | advcl |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 front | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stared | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 front | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 looked | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 each | case |
| 20 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 18 looked | obl |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 each | fixed |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 looked | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 looked | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 sky | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sky | det |
| 29 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 looked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the two priests | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stare | past | men = man | in front of gods | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | men = man | then | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | |||
| 4 | look | past | men = man | then | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=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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