Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 22

In the morning a band of travelling poets were passing, and the women handed Fionn over to them.

Who acts: band, women · What happens: pass, hand over · To what, where: Fionn, poets

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (band, women), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passing	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 band	det
5	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passing	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 poets	case
7	travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poets	compound
8	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 band	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 passing	aux
10	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 handed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 handed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 women	det
14	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 handed	nsubj
15	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 passing	conj
16	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 handed	obj
17	over	over	ADV	_	15 handed	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 handed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 passing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	a band of travelling poets				morning		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hand over	past	the women	Fionn	poets = poet			over property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fionn=Theme to they=Destination

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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