Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 1

In the morning as they sat at breakfast four clerics were announced, and when they entered the king looked on them with stern disapproval.

Who acts: they, clerics, king · What happens: sit, announce, enter, look · To what, where: breakfast, four clerics

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, clerics, king), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 sat	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 breakfast	case
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 clerics	nummod
10	clerics	cleric	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 announced	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 announced	aux:pass
12	announced	announce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sat	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 entered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 entered	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 entered	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 entered	nsubj
17	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 entered	ccomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 disapproval	case
24	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 disapproval	amod
25	disapproval	disapproval	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looked	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	they		breakfast	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at breakfast=Location
2	announce speech: other	past · passive		four clerics				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	enter	past	clerics = cleric					tree rules
4	look	past	the king				on clerics = cleric; with stern disapproval	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on they=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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