Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 2

Branduv came to the door himself to welcome them, and the minute he looked on Ivell of the Shining Cheeks it was plain that he liked looking at her.

Who acts: Branduv, minute, Ivell, door · What happens: come, welcome, look, cheek, be, like · To what, where: Branduv, door, Cheeks

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Branduv, minute, Ivell, door), 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	Branduv	Branduv	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 came	obl:unmarked
7	to	to	PART	_	8 welcome	mark
8	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 welcome	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 minute	det
13	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 Ivell	case
17	Ivell	Ivell	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Cheeks	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Shining	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Shining	det
20	Shining	Shining	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Ivell	nmod
21	Cheeks	cheek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 looked	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 plain	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 plain	cop
24	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Cheeks	ccomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 liked	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 liked	nsubj
27	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 plain	advcl
28	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 liked	xcomp
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looking	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Branduv	Branduv	the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	welcome	to-infinitive	Branduv not said here	Cheeks = cheek			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	look	past	the minute				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	cheek	present	Ivell of the Shining				tree rules
5	is	past	door			plain property	tree rules
6	like	past	Ivell				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	look not said to happen	gerund	Ivell not said here			at Ae	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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