Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 7

They began to move away from the host looking for shelter, and when they had gone apart a little way they turned the edge of a small hill and a knoll of trees, and in the twinkling of an eye they were in fair weather.

Who acts: men, host · What happens: begin, move away, look, go, turn, be · To what, where: twinkling, edge, eye, fair weather

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, host), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 move	mark
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 move	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 host	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 host	det
8	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 away	obl
9	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 host	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 shelter	case
11	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gone	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 gone	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gone	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	aux
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 began	conj
18	apart	apart	ADV	_	17 gone	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 way	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 apart	obl:unmarked
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turned	nsubj
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 way	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 edge	det
25	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 hill	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hill	det
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hill	amod
29	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 edge	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 knoll	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 knoll	det
32	knoll	knoll	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hill	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 trees	case
34	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 knoll	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 twinkling	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 twinkling	cc
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 twinkling	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 twinkling	det
39	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gone	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 eye	case
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 eye	det
42	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 twinkling	nmod
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 weather	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 weather	cop
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 weather	case
46	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 weather	amod
47	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 eye	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	men = man				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	move away	to-infinitive	men = man not said here			away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund	the host not said here			for shelter	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for shelter=Theme
4	go	past · perfect	men = man		the twinkling of a eye	apart property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in twinkling=Location
5	turn	past	men = man	the edge of a small hill and a knoll of trees			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent edge=Theme
6	is	past	men = man	a eye not said here	fair weather		tree rules

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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