Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 17
He set off then, and the others followed, staring about them cautiously, and each man keeping a hand on the hilt of his sword.
Who acts: grass, others, man · What happens: set off, follow, stare, keep · To what, where: hand, hilt
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 (grass, others, man), 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 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 set | compound:prt |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 set | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 followed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 followed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 followed | nsubj |
| 9 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 staring | punct |
| 11 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 followed | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 staring | obl |
| 14 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 11 staring | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 keeping | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 keeping | cc |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keeping | nsubj |
| 19 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 set | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hand | det |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keeping | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 hilt | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hilt | det |
| 24 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keeping | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sword | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sword | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hilt | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | grass | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the others | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stare | gerund | the others not said here | about others = other; cautiously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | gerund | each man | a hand | the hilt of grass's sword | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on hilt=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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