Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 17

But while Fionn and the Fianna stared like lost minds upon the Carl, there came a sound of buzzing, as if a hornet or a queen of the wasps or a savage, steep-winged griffin was hovering about them, and looking away they saw Cael of the Iron charging on them with a monstrous extension and scurry of his legs.

Who acts: Fionn, winged griffin, wasps, Cael, legs · What happens: stare, lose, come, wing, hover, look away · To what, where: sound, wasps, Cael · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fionn, winged griffin, wasps, Cael), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 stared	mark
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stared	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Fianna	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fianna	det
6	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fionn	conj
7	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	advcl
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 minds	case
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 minds	amod
10	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stared	obl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 Carl	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Carl	det
13	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stared	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stared	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 came	expl
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sound	det
18	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 buzzing	case
20	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sound	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hornet	punct
22	as	as	ADP	_	25 hornet	case
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 hornet	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hornet	det
25	hornet	hornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 queen	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 queen	det
28	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hornet	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 wasps	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wasps	det
31	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 queen	nmod
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 savage	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 savage	det
34	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wasps	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 griffin	punct
36	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 winged	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 steep	punct
38	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 griffin	amod
39	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hovering	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 hovering	aux
41	hovering	hover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 wasps	acl:relcl
42	about	about	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 hovering	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 saw	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 saw	cc
46	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 saw	csubj
47	away	away	ADV	_	46 looking	advmod
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 saw	nsubj
49	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
50	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 saw	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 Iron	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Iron	det
53	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Cael	nmod
54	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 saw	xcomp
55	on	on	ADP	_	56 them	case
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 charging	obl
57	with	with	ADP	_	60 extension	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 extension	det
59	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 extension	amod
60	extension	extension	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 charging	obl
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 scurry	cc
62	scurry	scurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 extension	conj
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 legs	case
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 legs	nmod:poss
65	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 scurry	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stare	past	Fionn and the Fianna			like lost minds; upon the Carl	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon carl=Theme
2	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past		a sound of buzzing	there	as a hornet or a queen of the wasps or a savage	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme
4	wing	participle					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	hover	past · progressive	winged griffin	the wasps or a savage not said here		about wasps = wasp	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wasp=Theme
6	look away	gerund				away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	see	past	wasps = wasp	Cael of the Iron			tree rules
8	charge	gerund	Cael of the Iron not said here			on wasps = wasp; with a monstrous extension and scurry of griffin's legs	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory
9	scurry		griffin's legs				nom scurry «act intransitive»: of=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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