Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 34

It was beautiful and tempting and savoury as it smoked on a wooden platter among cool green leaves; and it looked all these to Finegas when he came from behind the fringing bushes and sat in the grass outside his door.

Who acts: answer, it, Fionn · What happens: be, tempt, smoke, look, come, fringe · To what, where: wooden platter, these, Finegas, fringing bushes, grass

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, it, Fionn), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beautiful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beautiful	cop
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tempting	cc
5	tempting	tempt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 beautiful	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 savoury	cc
7	savoury	savoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beautiful	conj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 smoked	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smoked	nsubj
10	smoked	smoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 savoury	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 platter	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 platter	det
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 platter	amod
14	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smoked	obl
15	among	among	ADP	_	18 leaves	case
16	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 leaves	amod
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 leaves	amod
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 platter	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beautiful	parataxis
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 these	det:predet
24	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 looked	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Finegas	case
26	Finegas	Finegas	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 came	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 looked	advcl
30	from	from	ADP	_	34 bushes	case
31	behind	behind	ADP	_	34 bushes	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bushes	det
33	fringing	fringe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 bushes	amod
34	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 came	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sat	cc
36	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 came	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 grass	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 grass	det
39	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sat	obl
40	outside	outside	ADP	_	42 door	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 door	nmod:poss
42	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sat	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	answer				beautiful property	tree rules
2	tempt	gerund	answer not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	be		answer not said here					tree rules
4	smoke	past	answer			a wooden platter among cool green leaves		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	past	it	these	Finegas			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme this=Attribute
6	come	past	Fionn			the fringing bushes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bush=Initial_Location
7	fringe	gerund						tree rules
8	sit	past	Fionn not said here			the grass	outside Fionn's door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location

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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