Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 10

Below and around on every side the Fianna were beating the coverts in Legney and Brefny, ranging the fastnesses of Glen Dallan, creeping in the nut and beech forests of Carbury, spying among the woods of Kyle Conor, and ranging the wide plain of Moy Conal.

Who acts: Fianna · What happens: beat, range, creep, spy · To what, where: coverts, fastnesses, nut, wide plain

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fianna), 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	Below	below	ADV	_	8 Fianna	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 around	cc
3	around	around	ADV	_	1 Below	conj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 side	det
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Below	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fianna	det
8	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 beating	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beating	aux
10	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coverts	det
12	coverts	covert	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beating	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Legney	case
14	Legney	Legney	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 coverts	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Brefny	cc
16	Brefny	Brefny	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Legney	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ranging	punct
18	ranging	range	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 beating	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fastnesses	det
20	fastnesses	fastness	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ranging	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Glen	case
22	Glen	Glen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 fastnesses	nmod
23	Dallan	Dallan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Glen	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 creeping	punct
25	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 beating	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 nut	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 nut	det
28	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 creeping	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 forests	cc
30	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 forests	compound
31	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 nut	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Carbury	case
33	Carbury	Carbury	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 forests	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 spying	punct
35	spying	spy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 beating	conj
36	among	among	ADP	_	38 woods	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 woods	det
38	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 spying	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Kyle	case
40	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 woods	nmod
41	Conor	Conor	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Kyle	flat
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ranging	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 ranging	cc
44	ranging	range	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 beating	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 plain	det
46	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 plain	amod
47	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ranging	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 Moy	case
49	Moy	Moy	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 plain	nmod
50	Conal	Conal	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Moy	flat
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 beating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beat	past · progressive	the Fianna	the coverts		in Legney and Brefny	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent covert=Patient in legney=Topic
2	range	gerund	the Fianna not said here	the fastnesses of Glen			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fastness=Theme
3	creep	gerund	the Fianna not said here		the nut and beech forests of Carbury		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nut=Trajectory
4	spy	gerund	the Fianna not said here			among the woods of Kyle	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
5	range	gerund	the Fianna not said here	the wide plain of Moy			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plain=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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