Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 48
And all at church, from high to low, had their mouths open, gazing at her, and no man was looking at us."
Who acts: all, man · What happens: have, gaze, look · To what, where: mouths
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 (all, man), 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 | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 had | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 church | case |
| 4 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 all | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 high | case |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 all | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 low | case |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 all | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 had | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gazing | punct |
| 16 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 had | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gazing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looking | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looking | cc |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looking | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 looking | aux |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 had | advcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 us | case |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 looking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 looking | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | all | robes's mouths | open property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | |||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | all not said here | at satin | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past · progressive | no man | at us | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at we=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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