Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 1

When they came among the host the men of Ireland gathered about the vast stranger; and there were some who hid their faces in their mantles so that they should not be seen to laugh, and there were some who rolled along the ground in merriment, and there were others who could only hold their mouths open and crook their knees and hang their arms and stare dumbfoundedly upon the stranger, as though they were utterly dazed.

Who acts: they, men, some, others · What happens: come, gather, hide, not see, laugh, be · To what, where: host, faces, mantles, men, merriment, mouths

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, men, some, others), 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	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 host	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 host	det
6	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gathered	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Ireland	case
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod
11	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 host	acl:relcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	15 stranger	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stranger	det
14	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stranger	amod
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gathered	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 some	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 were	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 were	expl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 some	cop
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 came	conj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hid	nsubj
22	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 some	acl:relcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 faces	nmod:poss
24	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hid	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 mantles	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mantles	nmod:poss
27	mantles	mantle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hid	obl
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 seen	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 seen	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 seen	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 seen	aux:pass
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 hid	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 laugh	mark
36	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 seen	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 were	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 were	cc
39	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	40 were	expl
40	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 were	nsubj
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 rolled	nsubj
43	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 some	acl:relcl
44	along	along	ADP	_	46 ground	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 ground	det
46	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rolled	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 merriment	case
48	merriment	merriment	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rolled	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 were	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 were	cc
51	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	52 were	expl
52	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
53	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 were	nsubj
54	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 hold	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 hold	aux
56	only	only	ADV	_	57 hold	advmod
57	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 others	acl:relcl
58	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 mouths	nmod:poss
59	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 hold	obj
60	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 hold	xcomp
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 crook	cc
62	crook	crook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 hold	conj
63	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 knees	nmod:poss
64	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 crook	obj
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 hang	cc
66	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 hold	conj
67	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 arms	nmod:poss
68	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 hang	obj
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 stare	cc
70	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 hang	conj
71	dumbfoundedly	dumbfoundedly	ADV	_	70 stare	advmod
72	upon	upon	ADP	_	74 stranger	case
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 stranger	det
74	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 stare	obl
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 dazed	punct
76	as	as	SCONJ	_	81 dazed	mark
77	though	though	SCONJ	_	81 dazed	mark
78	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	81 dazed	nsubj:pass
79	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 dazed	aux:pass
80	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	81 dazed	advmod
81	dazed	daze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 hang	advcl
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	they		the host		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among host=Location
2	gather	past	the men of Ireland	the host not said here		about the vast stranger	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme
3	hide	past		men's faces	men's mantles		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Patient in mantle=Location
4	not see	should · passive		men = man			tree rules
5	laugh	to-infinitive	men = man not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	some		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	roll	past			merriment	along the ground	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme along ground=Source in merriment=Trajectory
8	be	past	others		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	hold	could	others	others's mouths		open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
10	crook	infinitive	others not said here	others's knees			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Patient
11	hang	infinitive	others not said here	others's arms			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
12	stare	infinitive	others not said here			upon the stranger; dumbfoundedly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon stranger=Theme
13	daze	past · passive		men = man		utterly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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