Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 3
The wonderful gift-giving of Goll continued, and an uneasiness and embarrassment began to creep through the great banqueting hall.
Who acts: Goll, uneasiness · What happens: give, continue, begin, creep · To what, where: great banqueting hall
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 (Goll, uneasiness), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wonderful | det |
| 2 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giving | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 gift | punct |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wonderful | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 continued | mark |
| 7 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 giving | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 uneasiness | det |
| 12 | uneasiness | uneasiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 began | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 embarrassment | cc |
| 14 | embarrassment | embarrassment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 uneasiness | conj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 creep | mark |
| 17 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 hall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hall | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hall | amod |
| 21 | banqueting | banqueting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hall | compound |
| 22 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 creep | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | continue | past | Goll | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | a uneasiness and embarrassment | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | creep | to-infinitive | a uneasiness and embarrassment not said here | the great banqueting hall | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/46/3/