Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 9

On another road a vat of seasoned yew, monstrous as a house on wheels and drawn by an hundred laborious oxen, came bumping and joggling the ale that thirsty Connaught princes would drink.

Who acts: thirsty Connaught princes · What happens: draw, come, bump, joggle, drink · To what, where: ale

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thirsty Connaught princes), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 road	case
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 road	det
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 monstrous	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vat	det
5	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 monstrous	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 yew	case
7	seasoned	seasoned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 yew	amod
8	yew	yew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vat	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 monstrous	punct
10	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 monstrous	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 wheels	case
15	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 house	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 drawn	cc
17	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 monstrous	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	22 oxen	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 oxen	det
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 oxen	nummod
21	laborious	laborious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 oxen	amod
22	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 drawn	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 monstrous	conj
25	bumping	bump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 came	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 joggling	cc
27	joggling	joggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 bumping	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ale	det
29	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 joggling	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 drink	obj
31	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 princes	amod
32	Connaught	Connaught	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 princes	compound
33	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 drink	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 drink	aux
35	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ale	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 monstrous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	participle			by a hundred laborious oxen	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past				tree rules
3	bump	gerund				vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
4	joggle	gerund		the ale		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ale=Theme
5	drink	would	thirsty Connaught princes	the ale		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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