Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 29
Tibraide’ rubbed his eyes, and then he looked again.
Who acts: Tibraide · What happens: ', rub, look · To what, where: rubbed eyes
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 (Tibraide), 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 | Tibraide | Tibraide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ’ | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 eyes | amod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ’ | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 looked | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ’ | conj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | past | Tibraide | Tibraide's rubbed eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rub | participle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | look | past | Tibraide | then; again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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