Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 44

Servants were shouting to one another, and women were running to and fro aimlessly, wringing their hands and screaming; and, when they saw the Champion, those nearest to him ran away, and there was a general effort on the part of every person to get behind every other person.

Who acts: Servants, women, Champion, general effort · What happens: shout, run, fro, wring, scream, see · To what, where: one, hands

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Servants, women, Champion, general effort), 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	Servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shouting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shouting	aux
3	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 shouting	obl
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	fixed
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 running	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 running	cc
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 running	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 running	aux
11	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 shouting	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 running	fixed
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fro	cc
14	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 running	conj
15	aimlessly	aimlessly	ADV	_	14 fro	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wringing	punct
17	wringing	wring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fro	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wringing	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 screaming	cc
21	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 wringing	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 saw	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shouting	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Champion	det
29	Champion	Champion	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 ran	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 nearest	punct
31	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 nearest	det
32	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 ran	nsubj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 nearest	obl
35	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	parataxis
36	away	away	ADV	_	35 ran	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 was	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 was	cc
39	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	40 was	expl
40	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	parataxis
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 effort	det
42	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 effort	amod
43	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 was	nsubj
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 part	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 part	det
46	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 effort	nmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 person	case
48	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	49 person	det
49	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 part	nmod
50	to	to	PART	_	51 get	mark
51	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 person	acl
52	behind	behind	ADP	_	55 person	case
53	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	55 person	det
54	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 person	amod
55	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 get	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shouting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · progressive	Servants		one			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
2	run	past · progressive	women					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fro	infinitive	women not said here				aimlessly property	tree rules
4	wring	gerund	women not said here	women's hands				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
5	scream speech: express	gerund	women not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	past	Servants = servant					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	run away	past	the Champion				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	be	past	a general effort on the part of every person			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	get	to-infinitive	a general effort on the part of every person not said here				behind every other person	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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