Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 21

They prowled up and down, tramping from the spy-hole to the kitchen, and from the kitchen to the turreted roof.

Who acts: men · What happens: prowl, tramp · To what, where: kitchen, spy hole

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 prowled	nsubj
2	prowled	prowl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 prowled	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 down	cc
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 up	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tramping	punct
7	tramping	tramp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prowled	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	12 hole	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
10	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hole	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 spy	punct
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tramping	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hole	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kitchen	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kitchen	cc
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 kitchen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 kitchen	det
20	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prowled	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 roof	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 roof	det
23	turreted	turreted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 roof	amod
24	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kitchen	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 prowled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prowl	past	men = man			the kitchen to the turreted roof			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from kitchen=Trajectory
2	tramp	gerund	men = man not said here			the spy hole to the kitchen			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hole=Trajectory

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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