Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 47

And it's little that any man could think of our dresses after looking at the robes of satin that she had on!

Who acts: it, man, satin · What happens: be, think, look, have on

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 (it, man, satin), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 little	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 little	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 little	cop
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 think	mark
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 think	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 think	aux
9	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 little	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 dresses	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dresses	nmod:poss
12	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 think	obl
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 looking	mark
14	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 think	advcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 robes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 robes	det
17	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 looking	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 satin	case
19	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 robes	nmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 looking	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	22 had	compound:prt
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 little	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	little property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	could	any man	of our dresses	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	gerund	any man not said here	at the robes of satin	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at robe=Theme
4	have on	past	satin		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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