Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 40

He looked into her face, and he saw the mouth moving as if she was going to speak, but there came no word from it.

Who acts: father, mouth, sheehogue · What happens: look, see, move, go, speak, come · To what, where: mouth, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, mouth, sheehogue), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 face	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mouth	det
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 mouth	acl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 moving	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 speak	mark
19	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 came	expl
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 word	det
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	father			into sheehogue's face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme
2	see	past	father	the mouth			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouth=Stimulus
3	move	gerund	the mouth not said here				tree rules
4	go a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	sheehogue				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	sheehogue not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	father not said here	no word	mouth; there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=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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