Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 1

The Carl of the Drab Coat came bumping and stumping and clumping into the camp, and was surrounded by a multitude that adored him and hailed him with tears.

Who acts: Carl, multitude · What happens: come, bump, stump, clump, surround, adore · To what, where: camp, Carl

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl, multitude), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Carl	det
2	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Coat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Coat	det
5	Drab	Drab	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Coat	compound
6	Coat	Coat	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Carl	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	bumping	bump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 came	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stumping	cc
10	stumping	stump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bumping	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 clumping	cc
12	clumping	clump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stumping	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 camp	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 camp	det
15	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clumping	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 surrounded	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 surrounded	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 surrounded	aux:pass
19	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 came	advcl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 multitude	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 multitude	det
22	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 surrounded	obl:agent
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 adored	nsubj
24	adored	adore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 multitude	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 adored	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hailed	cc
27	hailed	hail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 adored	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hailed	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 tears	case
30	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hailed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Carl of the Drab Coat				tree rules
2	bump	gerund	the Carl of the Drab Coat not said here				vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
3	stump	gerund	the Carl of the Drab Coat not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	clump	gerund	the Carl of the Drab Coat not said here		the camp		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into camp=Destination
5	surround	past · passive	a multitude				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	adore	past	a multitude	Carl			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	hail	past	a multitude not said here	Carl		with tears	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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