Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 21

Little by little all the members of the Fianna returned to the hill, and each of them was drawn into the cave, and each was bound by the sisters.

Who acts: Little little members, sisters · What happens: return, draw, bind · To what, where: each, cave

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little little members, sisters), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 members	amod
2	by	by	ADP	_	6 members	case
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 members	amod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 members	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 members	det
6	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 returned	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Fianna	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fianna	det
9	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 members	nmod
10	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drawn	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drawn	cc
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 drawn	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 each	nmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 drawn	aux:pass
20	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 returned	parataxis
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 cave	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cave	det
23	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drawn	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bound	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bound	cc
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 bound	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bound	aux:pass
28	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 drawn	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 sisters	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sisters	det
31	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bound	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	all Little little members of the Fianna		to the hill result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hill=Result
2	draw	past · passive		each	into the cave result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient into cave=Result
3	bind	past · passive	the sisters	each		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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