Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 29

They were racing through a smooth valley in a steady, beautiful, speedy flight when, suddenly, the fawn stopped and lay on the grass, and it lay with the calm of an animal that has no fear, and the leisure of one that is not pressed.

Who acts: Bran, fawn, flight, animal · What happens: race, stop, lay, lie, have, not press · To what, where: smooth valley, grass, fear

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bran, fawn, flight, animal), 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	3 racing	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 racing	aux
3	racing	race	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 valley	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 valley	det
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 valley	amod
7	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 racing	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	15 flight	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 flight	det
10	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flight	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 steady	punct
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flight	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beautiful	punct
14	speedy	speedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flight	amod
15	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 valley	nmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 racing	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stopped	punct
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 stopped	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stopped	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fawn	det
21	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stopped	nsubj
22	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 racing	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
24	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 stopped	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 grass	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lay	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lay	nsubj
31	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stopped	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 calm	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 calm	det
34	calm	calm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 animal	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 animal	det
37	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 calm	nmod
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 has	nsubj
39	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 animal	acl:relcl
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 fear	det
41	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 has	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 one	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 one	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 leisure	det
45	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 one	nsubj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 one	case
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 lay	obl
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 pressed	nsubj:pass
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 pressed	aux:pass
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 pressed	advmod
51	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 one	acl:relcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 racing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	race	past · progressive	Bran		a smooth valley in a steady beautiful speedy flight		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through valley=Trajectory
2	stop	past	the fawn			suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	lay	infinitive	the fawn not said here		the grass		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on grass=Destination
4	lie	past	flight			with the calm of a animal; of one	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	present	a animal	no fear			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient
6	not press	present · passive					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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