Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 5

The great abbot sat down on a spot just beyond the door, and composed himself to all that might follow from his action.

Who acts: great abbot, all, abbot · What happens: sit down, compose, follow, act · To what, where: spot, abbot, action

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 (great abbot, all, abbot), 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	3 abbot	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 abbot	amod
3	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 spot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spot	det
8	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 door	advmod
10	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 composed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 composed	cc
15	composed	compose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 composed	obj
17	to	to	SCONJ	_	21 follow	mark
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 follow	nsubj
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 follow	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 follow	aux
21	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 composed	advcl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 action	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 action	nmod:poss
24	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 follow	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the great abbot		a spot	beyond the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spot=Location
2	compose	past	the great abbot not said here	abbot			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result
3	follow	might	all		abbot's action		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent from action=Trajectory
4	act		abbot				nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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