Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 36
They followed him, whispering among themselves, keeping their eyes on the ground as they climbed.
Who acts: words · What happens: follow, whisper, keep, climb · To what, where: Fionn, eyes, ground
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 whispering | punct |
| 5 | whispering | whisper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 followed | advcl |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 themselves | case |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 whispering | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keeping | punct |
| 9 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 whispering | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keeping | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keeping | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 climbed | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 climbed | nsubj |
| 17 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 keeping | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | words = word | Fionn | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | words = word not said here | among words = word | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among themselves=Location | ||||
| 3 | keep | gerund | words = word not said here | words's eyes | the ground | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on ground=Location | |||
| 4 | climb | past | words = word | vn run-51.3.2 «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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