Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 62

Here two champions with their arms round each other’s necks were stamping round and round in a slow, sad dance.

Who acts: other necks · What happens: stamp · To what, where: slow sad dance

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 (other necks), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 champions	nummod
3	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Here	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 arms	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Here	obl
7	round	round	ADV	_	1 Here	conj
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 necks	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 necks	amod
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 other	case
11	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stamping	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stamping	aux
13	stamping	stamp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Here	conj
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 stamping	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 round	cc
16	round	round	ADV	_	14 round	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	22 dance	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dance	det
19	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dance	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 slow	punct
21	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dance	amod
22	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stamping	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stamp	past · progressive	each other necks			a slow sad dance		round property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in dance=Destination

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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