Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 20

There they went inland towards a vast palace, in which there was no person but themselves alone, and there the young man went to sleep, while Becfola sat staring at him until the unavoidable peace pressed down her eyelids and she too slumbered.

Who acts: curls, person, young man, Becfola, unavoidable peace · What happens: go, be, sleep, sit, stare, press down · To what, where: curls, vast palace, eyelids

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, person, young man, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 went	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inland	inland	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 palace	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 palace	det
7	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 palace	amod
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 was	obl
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 themselves	cc
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 went	obl
18	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 went	expl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sleep	mark
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 went	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 sat	mark
30	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sat	nsubj
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
32	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sat	advcl
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 staring	obl
35	until	until	ADP	_	38 peace	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 peace	det
37	unavoidable	unavoidable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 peace	amod
38	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 staring	obl
39	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 peace	acl
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 pressed	compound:prt
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 eyelids	nmod:poss
42	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 pressed	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 slumbered	cc
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 slumbered	nsubj
45	too	too	ADV	_	46 slumbered	advmod
46	slumbered	slumber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	curls = curl	curls = curl	a vast palace; there		alone, inland property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards palace=Initial_Location
2	be	past	no person		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
3	go	past	the young man		there			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep	to-infinitive	the young man not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sit	past	Becfola					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stare	gerund	Becfola not said here			until the unavoidable peace	at man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
7	press down	participle	the unavoidable peace not said here	Becfola's eyelids				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Theme
8	slumber	past	Becfola					vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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