Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 10

She saluted this youth and sat beside him.

Who acts: danger · What happens: salute, sit · To what, where: youth

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (danger), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saluted	nsubj
2	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saluted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sat	cc
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saluted	conj
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saluted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	salute	past	danger	this youth					vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Topic
2	sit	past	danger not said here					beside man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=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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