Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 10

When this was accomplished the leaders of battalions gathered on a level, grassy plateau overlooking the sea, where a consultation began as to the next day’s manoeuvres, and during this discussion they looked often on the wide water that lay wrinkling and twinkling below them.

Who acts: grassy plateau, consultation, leaders, wide water, next day · What happens: accomplish, gather, overlook, begin, look, lie · To what, where: this, battalions, level, sea

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grassy plateau, consultation, leaders, wide water), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 accomplished	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 accomplished	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accomplished	aux:pass
4	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leaders	det
6	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 accomplished	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 battalions	case
8	battalions	battalion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leaders	nmod
9	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 battalions	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 level	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 level	det
12	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gathered	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 plateau	punct
14	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 plateau	amod
15	plateau	plateau	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 level	conj
16	overlooking	overlook	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 plateau	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 overlooking	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 began	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 consultation	det
22	consultation	consultation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sea	acl:relcl
24	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	30 manoeuvres	case
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 as	fixed
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 day	det
27	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 day	amod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 manoeuvres	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 day	case
30	manoeuvres	manoeuvre	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 began	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 looked	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 looked	cc
33	during	during	ADP	_	35 discussion	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 discussion	det
35	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 looked	obl
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 looked	nsubj
37	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accomplished	conj
38	often	often	ADV	_	37 looked	advmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 water	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 water	det
41	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 water	amod
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 looked	obl
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 lay	nsubj
44	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 water	acl:relcl
45	wrinkling	wrinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 lay	xcomp
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 twinkling	cc
47	twinkling	twinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 wrinkling	conj
48	below	below	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 twinkling	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 accomplished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	past · passive		this				tree rules
2	gather	participle		battalions not said here	a level and grassy plateau			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	overlook	gerund	grassy plateau not said here	the sea				vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme
4	begin	past	a consultation				as the next day's manoeuvres	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	look	past	leaders = leader			during this discussion	on the wide water; often property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on water=Theme
6	lie	past	the wide water					tree rules
7	wrinkle	gerund	the wide water not said here					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	twinkle	gerund	the wide water not said here				below leaders = leader	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below they=Location
9	manoeuvre		the next day					nom manoeuvre «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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