Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 42

The sons of Morna came, but there were only two grim women living in a lonely hut to greet them.

Who acts: sons, two grim women · What happens: come, be, live, greet · To what, where: lonely hut, women

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 (sons, two grim 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sons	det
2	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Morna	case
4	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sons	nmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 were	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 two	advmod
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 women	nummod
12	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 women	amod
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
14	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 women	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 hut	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hut	det
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hut	amod
18	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 living	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 greet	mark
20	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 living	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 greet	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	the sons of Morna			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	two grim women		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	gerund	two grim women not said here		a lonely hut	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location
4	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	two grim women not said here	women = woman		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «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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