Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 142
Naois looked at Deirdre and knew that some one was looking at her from the back of the door-leaf.
Who acts: Naois, one · What happens: look, know · To what, where: back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Naois, one), 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 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Deirdre | case |
| 4 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knew | cc |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 looking | mark |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looking | aux |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 knew | ccomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looking | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 back | det |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 leaf | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 leaf | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leaf | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 door | punct |
| 21 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 back | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Naois | at Deirdre | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at deirdre=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Naois not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look | past · progressive | some one | the back of the door leaf | at Gelban | 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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