Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 46

Night drew on them; a grey chill, a grey silence, and they were enveloped in that chill and silence; and they began to go in expectation and terror, for they both knew and did not know that which they were bound for.

Who acts: Night, Becfola · What happens: draw, envelop, begin, go, know, not know · To what, where: Becfola, chill, expectation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Night, Becfola), 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	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 chill	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chill	det
7	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chill	amod
8	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 silence	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 silence	det
11	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 silence	amod
12	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chill	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 enveloped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 enveloped	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 enveloped	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 enveloped	aux:pass
17	enveloped	envelop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drew	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 chill	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 chill	det
20	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 enveloped	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 silence	cc
22	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chill	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 expectation	case
30	expectation	expectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 terror	cc
32	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 expectation	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 knew	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 knew	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 knew	nsubj
36	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	37 knew	advmod
37	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 began	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 know	cc
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 know	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 know	advmod
41	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 knew	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 bound	mark
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 bound	nsubj:pass
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 bound	nsubj:pass
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 bound	aux:pass
46	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 know	ccomp
47	for	for	ADP	_	46 bound	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Night			on Becfola	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination
2	envelop	past · passive		Becfola	that chill and silence		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
3	begin	past	Becfola				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	go	to-infinitive	Becfola not said here		expectation and terror		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in expectation=Location
5	know	past	Becfola				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	not know	past · do-support	Becfola not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	bind	past · passive					vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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