Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 27

It's little that was thought of our dresses beside what she had on; and there wasn't a man at the church, from the king to the beggar, but was trying to look at her and know who she was."

Who acts: other two, henwife · What happens: be, think, have on, not be, try, look · To what, where: man, church · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other two, henwife), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 little	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 little	cop
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 thought	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	aux:pass
6	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 little	acl:relcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dresses	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dresses	nmod:poss
9	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thought	obl
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 dresses	nmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 was	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 man	cop
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 man	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 church	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 church	det
24	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 man	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 king	punct
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 king	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 man	appos
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 beggar	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 beggar	det
31	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 king	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 trying	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 trying	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 trying	aux
35	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 man	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 look	mark
37	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 trying	xcomp
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 look	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 know	cc
41	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 look	conj
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 was	nsubj
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 was	nsubj
44	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 know	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	other two = two			little property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past · passive				of our dresses	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have on	past	henwife				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	past		a man	the church		tree rules
5	try	past · progressive					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	look not said to happen	to-infinitive				at henwife	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
7	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	be	past					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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