Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 19

When the fight was over, Bran and Sceo’lan ran whining to the little boy and licked his hands.

Who acts: fight, Bran · What happens: be, run, whine, lick · To what, where: little boy, hands

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 (fight, Bran), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 over	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fight	det
3	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 over	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 over	cop
5	over	over	ADV	_	10 ran	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 over	punct
7	Bran	Bran	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ran	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Sceo’lan	cc
9	Sceo’lan	Sceo'lan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bran	conj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	whining	whine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 ran	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 boy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whining	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 licked	cc
17	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ran	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 licked	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fight			over property	tree rules
2	run	past	Bran and Sceo’lan				tree rules
3	whine	gerund	Bran and Sceo’lan not said here		the little boy		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient
4	lick	past	Bran and Sceo’lan not said here	boy's hands			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source

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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