Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 13

Twenty-four men and twenty-four women came with him.

Who acts: four men · What happens: come

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four men), 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	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 four	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 women	cc
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 four	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 twenty	punct
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 women	nummod
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 men	conj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	four men and four women					with Finnian	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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