Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 15

They came to the narrow place on the slope of the mountain, and they saw the five great hounds in a circle keeping off the other dogs, and in the middle of the ring a little boy was standing.

Who acts: men, circle, little boy · What happens: come, see, keep off, stand · To what, where: narrow place, five great hounds, circle, other dogs, middle

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, circle, little boy), 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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 slope	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 slope	det
9	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 mountain	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mountain	det
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slope	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hounds	det
18	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hounds	nummod
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hounds	amod
20	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 circle	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 circle	det
23	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
24	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 circle	acl
25	off	off	ADP	_	28 dogs	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dogs	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dogs	amod
28	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 keeping	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 standing	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 standing	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 middle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 middle	det
33	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 standing	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 ring	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ring	det
36	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 middle	nmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 boy	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 boy	amod
39	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 standing	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 standing	aux
41	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	men = man		the narrow place on the slope of the mountain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	see	past	men = man	the five great hounds	a circle	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hound=Stimulus
3	keep off	gerund	a circle not said here	the other dogs		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
4	stand	past · progressive	a little boy		the middle of the ring	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location

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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