Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 68

Pressed against the wall was a bevy of ladies, some of whom were screaming and some laughing and all of whom were calling on the men to go back to their seats.

Who acts: some, laughing · What happens: press, be, scream, call, go back · To what, where: bevy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (some, laughing), 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	Pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bevy	advcl
2	against	against	ADP	_	4 wall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wall	det
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pressed	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bevy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bevy	det
7	bevy	bevy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 ladies	case
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bevy	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 screaming	punct
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 screaming	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 screaming	obl
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 screaming	aux
15	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 bevy	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 calling	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 laughing	det
18	laughing	laughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 calling	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 calling	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 calling	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 whom	case
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 all	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 calling	aux
24	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 screaming	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 men	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 men	det
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 calling	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 calling	advcl
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 seats	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 seats	nmod:poss
33	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 go	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bevy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	press	participle			against the wall	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against wall=Theme
2	is a	past		a bevy	of ladies	tree rules
3	scream speech: express	past · progressive	some		of a bevy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	call	past · progressive	some laughing		on the men	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go back	to-infinitive	some laughing not said here		to men's seats result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to seat=Result

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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