Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 193

And it was fearful to look on the brute, who had but one eye in the midst of his face; and it was not agreeable for the like of me to attack him.

Who acts: ill, brute · What happens: be, look, have, not be, attack · To what, where: one eye, midst, weapon

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ill, brute), 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 fearful	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fearful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fearful	cop
4	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fearful	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 brute	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brute	det
9	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brute	acl:relcl
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 eye	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 eye	nummod
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 midst	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 midst	det
18	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 face	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 face	nmod:poss
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 midst	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 agreeable	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 agreeable	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 agreeable	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 agreeable	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 agreeable	advmod
27	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fearful	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 the	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 agreeable	obl
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 me	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 like	fixed
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 agreeable	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 attack	mark
34	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 agreeable	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 attack	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fearful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	ill			fearful property	tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	ill not said here			on the brute	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on brute=Theme
3	have	past	the brute	one eye	the midst of weapon's face		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	not is	past	ill			for the; like me; agreeable property	tree rules
5	attack	to-infinitive	ill not said here	weapon			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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