Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 2

But while they were talking over the adventure and explaining how it had happened, a vast figure strode over the side of the hill and descended among them.

Who acts: jump, it, vast figure · What happens: talk, explain, happen, stride, descend · To what, where: adventure, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jump, it, vast figure), 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	_	19 strode	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 talking	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talking	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talking	aux
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 strode	advcl
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 adventure	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 adventure	det
8	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 explaining	cc
10	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 talking	conj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 happened	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 happened	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 happened	aux
14	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 explaining	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 talking	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 figure	det
17	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 figure	amod
18	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 strode	nsubj
19	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 side	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 side	det
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 strode	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 hill	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hill	det
25	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 side	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 descended	cc
27	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 strode	conj
28	among	among	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 descended	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 strode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	jump	the adventure		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	explain speech: assert	gerund	jump not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect	it			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stride	past	a vast figure	the side of the hill		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over side=Trajectory
5	descend	past	a vast figure not said here		among jump	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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