Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 15

And I sat by the pool weeping my loneliness and wildness and my stern old age; and I could do no more than cry and lament between the earth and the sky, while the beasts that tracked me listened from behind the trees, or crouched among bushes to stare at me from their drowsy covert.

Who acts: I, beasts · What happens: sit, weep, do, cry, lament, track · To what, where: loneliness, more, me, bushes, drowsy covert

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, beasts), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 sat	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 pool	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pool	det
6	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 loneliness	nmod:poss
9	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weeping	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wildness	cc
11	wildness	wildness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loneliness	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 age	cc
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 age	nmod:poss
14	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 age	amod
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 age	amod
16	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loneliness	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	advcl
22	no	no	ADV	_	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 do	obj
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 cry	mark
25	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 more	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lament	cc
27	lament	lament	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 cry	conj
28	between	between	ADP	_	30 earth	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 earth	det
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lament	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sky	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sky	det
33	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 earth	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 beasts	punct
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 beasts	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 beasts	det
37	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 do	obl
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 tracked	nsubj
39	tracked	track	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 beasts	acl:relcl
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 tracked	obj
41	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 tracked	xcomp
42	from	from	ADP	_	45 trees	case
43	behind	behind	ADP	_	45 trees	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 trees	det
45	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 listened	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 crouched	punct
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 crouched	cc
48	crouched	crouch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj
49	among	among	ADP	_	50 bushes	case
50	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 crouched	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 stare	mark
52	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 crouched	advcl
53	at	at	ADP	_	54 me	case
54	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 stare	obl
55	from	from	ADP	_	58 covert	case
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 covert	nmod:poss
57	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 covert	amod
58	covert	covert	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 stare	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	I			by the pool	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pool=Location
2	weep	gerund	I not said here	my loneliness and wildness and my stern old age			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent loneliness=Theme
3	do	could	I	more		the beasts obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	infinitive	I not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lament	infinitive	I not said here			between the earth and the sky	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	track	past	the beasts	me			tree rules
7	listen	participle	the beasts not said here			from the trees	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from tree=Theme
8	crouch	participle	I not said here		bushes		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bush=Location
9	stare	to-infinitive	I not said here		trees's drowsy covert	at me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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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