Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 2
They were looking from the heights of the Dun, and the Flower of Allen was with them.
Who acts: guards, Flower · What happens: look, be
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, Flower), 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 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | aux |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 heights | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heights | det |
| 6 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looking | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Dun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dun | det |
| 9 | Dun | Dun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heights | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 them | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 them | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Flower | det |
| 13 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 them | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Allen | case |
| 15 | Allen | Allen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Flower | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 them | cop |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | guards = guard | from the heights of the Dun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from height=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Flower of Allen | with heights = height | tree rules |
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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