Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 29

They lived in the house with him: they sat at the table and ate his meat.

Who acts: women · What happens: live, sit, eat · To what, where: house, table, meat

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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ate	cc
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 meat	nmod:poss
17	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ate	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	women = woman		the house	with Fionn	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
2	sit	past	women = woman		the table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
3	eat	past	women = woman not said here	Fionn's meat			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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: «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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