Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 11

He came on Ailill of the Black Teeth sitting on the bridge that spanned a torrent, and the grim giant was grinding his teeth on a pillar stone.

Who acts: head, bridge, grim giant · What happens: come, sit, span, grind · To what, where: Ailill, bridge, torrent, teeth, pillar stone

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, bridge, grim giant), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Ailill	case
4	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Teeth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Teeth	det
7	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Teeth	compound
8	Teeth	Teeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ailill	nmod
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 came	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 bridge	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bridge	det
12	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 spanned	nsubj
14	spanned	span	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bridge	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 torrent	det
16	torrent	torrent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spanned	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grinding	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grinding	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 giant	det
20	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 giant	amod
21	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grinding	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 grinding	aux
23	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sitting	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 teeth	nmod:poss
25	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grinding	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 stone	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 stone	det
28	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stone	compound
29	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grinding	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	head		Ailill of the Black Teeth	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ailill=Location
2	sit	gerund	head not said here		the bridge	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bridge=Location
3	span	past	the bridge	a torrent		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme torrent=Co-Theme
4	grind	past · progressive	the grim giant	head's teeth	a pillar stone	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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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