Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 35

The woman in the chariot had drawn nigh to the ford by which they were standing, and, without pause, she swung her steeds into the shallows and came across the river in a tumult of foam and spray.

Who acts: eyebrows, pause · What happens: draw, stand, swing, come · To what, where: woman, ford, steeds, shallows, river

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 (eyebrows, pause), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 chariot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chariot	det
5	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woman	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drawn	aux
7	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	7 drawn	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 ford	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ford	det
11	ford	ford	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 standing	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 standing	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 standing	aux
16	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ford	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 swung	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 swung	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pause	punct
20	without	without	ADP	_	21 pause	case
21	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swung	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pause	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 swung	nsubj
24	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drawn	parataxis
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 steeds	nmod:poss
26	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 swung	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 shallows	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shallows	det
29	shallows	shallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 swung	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 swung	conj
32	across	across	ADP	_	34 river	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 river	det
34	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 tumult	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 tumult	det
37	tumult	tumult	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 foam	case
39	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tumult	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 spray	cc
41	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 foam	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past · perfect · passive		the woman in the chariot	the ford	nigh property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to ford=Destination
2	stand	past · progressive	eyebrows = eyebrow			by the ford	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by which=Location
3	swing	past	pause	pause's steeds	the shallows		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent steed=Theme into shallow=Trajectory
4	come	past	pause not said here		the river	in a tumult of foam and spray	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across river=Initial_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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