Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 19

They came to an inlet of the sea all sweet and calm under the round, silver-flooding moon, and the young man, with Becfola treading on his heel, stepped into a boat and rowed to a high-jutting, pleasant island.

Who acts: curls, Becfola · What happens: come, flood, tread, step, row, jut · To what, where: young man, inlet, heel, boat, pleasant island

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 (curls, 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	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	_	5 inlet	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 inlet	det
5	inlet	inlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inlet	nmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sweet	advmod
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 calm	cc
12	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sweet	conj
13	under	under	ADP	_	20 moon	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moon	det
15	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 moon	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 round	punct
17	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flooding	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 silver	punct
19	flooding	flood	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 moon	amod
20	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sweet	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 man	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 man	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 treading	punct
27	with	with	SCONJ	_	29 treading	mark
28	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 treading	nsubj
29	treading	tread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 heel	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heel	nmod:poss
32	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 treading	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stepped	punct
34	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 heel	acl
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 boat	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 boat	det
37	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stepped	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 rowed	cc
39	rowed	row	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 stepped	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	47 island	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 island	det
42	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 jutting	amod
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 high	punct
44	jutting	jut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 island	nsubj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 island	punct
46	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 island	amod
47	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rowed	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	curls = curl	the young man	a inlet of the sea	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inlet=Initial_Location
2	flood	gerund				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	tread	gerund	Becfola		man's heel	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on heel=Trajectory
4	step	participle		man's heel not said here	a boat	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination
5	row	participle			a pleasant island	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to island=Trajectory
6	jut	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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