Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 17

One day Becuma came on the lawn before the palace, and seeing that Art was at chess with Cromdes she walked to the table on which the match was being played and for some time regarded the game.

Who acts: Becuma, Art · What happens: come, see, be, walk, play, regard · To what, where: lawn, chess, table, match, game

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becuma, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked
3	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 lawn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lawn	det
7	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 walked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 walked	cc
13	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 walked	csubj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 chess	mark
15	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 chess	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 chess	cop
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 chess	case
18	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seeing	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 Cromdes	case
20	Cromdes	Cromde	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 seeing	obl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 walked	nsubj
22	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 table	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 table	det
25	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walked	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 played	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 match	det
29	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 played	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 played	aux:pass
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 played	aux:pass
32	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 table	acl:relcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 regarded	cc
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 time	case
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 time	det
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 regarded	obl
37	regarded	regard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 played	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 game	det
39	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 regarded	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Becuma		the lawn	before the palace; day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lawn=Location
2	see	gerund					with Cromdes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Art		chess			tree rules
4	walk	past	Becuma		the table			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to table=Destination
5	play	past · passive		the match	the table			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	regard	past		the game		time		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/69/17/