Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 21

She came secretly, for she feared the sons of Morna, and she had paced through lonely places in many counties before she reached the hut in the wood, and the cot where he lay with his fists shut and sleep gripped in them.

Who acts: Muirne, cot · What happens: come, fear, pace, reach, lie, sleep · To what, where: sons, Muirne, lonely places, hut, wood

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muirne, cot), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feared	punct
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 feared	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feared	nsubj
7	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sons	det
9	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feared	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Morna	case
11	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sons	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 paced	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 paced	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 paced	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 paced	aux
16	paced	pace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	parataxis
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 places	case
18	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 places	amod
19	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 paced	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 counties	case
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 counties	amod
22	counties	county	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 paced	obl
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 reached	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reached	nsubj
25	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 paced	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hut	det
27	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reached	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 wood	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wood	det
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hut	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lay	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lay	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cot	det
34	cot	cot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lay	nsubj
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 lay	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 lay	nsubj
37	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 fists	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 fists	nmod:poss
40	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lay	obl
41	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 lay	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sleep	cc
43	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 lay	conj
44	gripped	grip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 sleep	xcomp
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 gripped	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Muirne			secretly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fear	past	Muirne	the sons of Morna			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
3	pace	past · perfect · passive		Muirne	lonely places	in many counties	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	reach	past	Muirne	the hut	the wood		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme
5	lie	past	the cot			with cot's fists; shut property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sleep	present	the cot not said here				tree rules
7	grip	participle	the cot not said here			in fists = fist	vn touch-20-1 «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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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