Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 2

Art, the son of Conn, was sitting at chess with Cromdes, his father’s magician.

Who acts: Art · What happens: sit · To what, where: magician, chess

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 (Art), 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	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Art	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Conn	case
6	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Art	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 chess	case
11	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 Cromdes	case
13	Cromdes	Cromdes	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 chess	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 magician	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 magician	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 father	case
18	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Art	Art's father's magician		chess with Cromdes			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at chess=Location

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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